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A Complicated People

Colin Thubron BAD ELEMENTS: CHINESE REBELS FROM LOS ANGELES TO BEIJING by Ian Buruma Weidenfeld, £20, pp. 368, ISBN 0297643134 T he Chinese dissident, by contrast to the......

Two Marble-hearted Fiends

Sarah Bradford UNGRATEFUL DAUGHTERS by Maureen Waller Hodder, 120, pp. 402, ISBN 0340794615 I had never thought of James II in the role of King Lear; in his complete lack of......