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“Yuan Yang looks at four women born around the end of the 1980s and beginning of the 1990s. These women tell the story of a very different China to the one we are used to hearing. It’s the other side of the economic miracle. These are women who have dreams that might appear modest, but are quietly revolutionary—like going to university rather than raising pigs, or escaping the village to work on a factory floor.” Read more...
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The Story of the Stone (also called Dream of the Red Chamber)
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Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics
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Three Kingdoms: A Historical Novel
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Chinese Shadows
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The Corpse Walker
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Red Capitalism
by Carl Walter & Fraser Howie






