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The Rice-Sprout Song

A few days before I left China, a friend handed me two books by Eileen Chang, an author who for a long time had been on my list but who I never actually got around to reading. I read one of them, The Rice-Sprout Song, on my flight home from China nearly a... ...full story at Peking Duck

from Peking Duck on Thu, Aug 27 2009

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