I'd like to thank the publishers for sending a copy to the Bookbag.
Further reading suggestion: Lisa See’s first novel [[Peopny in Love by Lisa See|Peony In in Love]] takes a very female look at a much earlier period in Chinese history, or for a modern Westerner’s response to China, you could do a lot worse than Fuchsia Dunlop’s experience in [[Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-sour Memoir of Eating in China by Fuchsia Dunlop|Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper]] (which shows that some things have changed a little since the 1950s/60s)
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