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Class Crunch

John Scott Chinese Shadows Simon Leys (Penguin 80 P) Mao's China Maurice Meisner (Free Press £13.50) A Dutch journalist, Mijnheer J. T. Barendrecht, has nicely described the......

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Benny Green Little Novels Wilkie Collins (Dover Books: Constable £2.00) Apart from his status as the personification of the darker side of Dickens's nature, the obverse of that......