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Swimming with Mao, a memoir essay

Xujun Eberlein's new book of short stories Apologies Forthcoming This memoir piece 'Swimming with Mao' is by Xunjun Eberlein, author of the new short story book Apologies Forthcoming. Though this non-fiction piece does not appear in the story collection,... ...full story at Danwei

from Danwei on Thu, Jul 31 2008

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