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Through China's Furnace

Colin Thubron WILD SWANS: THREE DAUGHTERS OF CHINA by Jung Chang HarperCollins, £17.50, pp.524 0 f all the personal histories to have emerged out of China's 20th-century night-......

What Did You

do in the sex war, Daddy? Anne Chisholm THE STORK CLUB by Maureen Freely Bloomsbury, £14.99, pp.311 S elf-deprecating, rueful, comic writing has been a special talent of......