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“It’s a series of parables, often involving animals that have a non-sequitur quality to them. So it’ll be a story about a bird or a fish that leaves you hanging at the end. You never really know what he’s talking about.” Read more...
Simon Cox, Historian
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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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The Real Story of Ah-Q
by Lu Xun & translated by Julia Lovell -
Red Star over China
by Edgar Snow -
Three Kingdoms: A Historical Novel
by Luo Guanzhong & Moss Roberts (translator) -
Chinese Shadows
by Simon Leys
