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In the first half of the 20th century, many Chinese lost themselves in tales of scandal, romance and martial gallantry - standard reading for city dwellers craving escape. The stories selected and translated here are a record of what urban life was like, as well as what readers wished it to be.Timothy C. Wong is the author of 'Stories for Saturday: Twentieth-Century Chinese Popular Fiction' with ISBN 9780824826901 and ISBN 0824826906.
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