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Rereading the Stone: Desire and the Making of Fiction in Dream of the Red Chamber by Anthony C. Yu
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Dai Sijie - 2000
There they meet the daughter of the local tailor and discover a hidden stash of Western classics in Chinese translation. As they flirt with the seamstress and secretly devour these banned works, they find transit from their grim surroundings to worlds they never imagined.
Eighth Moon: The True Story of a Young Girl's Life in Communist China
Bette Bao Lord - 1964
Inspiring story of a girl who suffered many hardships during the Chinese Communist revolution and who finally escaped to be reunited with her family.