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Women, Seated: A Story of Female Relationships and Class Tension in Contemporary China

In her latest novel, Zhang Yueran offers a stark, nuanced portrait of three women from different socioeconomic backgrounds navigating power, desire, the men in their lives, and a fraught bond that begins to unravel in the wake of an abduction and a corruption arrest

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