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Ancient China, Life, Myth And Art
• Edward L. Shaughnessy
• HISTORY
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A brief survey of the artistic, social, cultural, scientific, mathematic, musical, and literary achievements of ancient China.
(CHN285, $23.00)
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Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana
• Stephanie Elizondo Griest
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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The offbeat memoirs of a Texan who spent four years as a volunteer in Moscow, a propaganda officer in Beijing, and a belly dancer in Havana.
(RUS242, $14.95)
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The Arts of China
• Michael Sullivan
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A comprehensive survey of Chinese visual arts and cul-ture through the ages. It's a lively overview, thoroughly illustrated and accessible, of bronzes, ceramics, painting and architecture, from the Neolithic to the modern era.
(CHN16, $41.95)
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
• Sijie Dai
• Ina Rilke
• LITERATURE
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A charming, unexpectedly witty, tale of two teenage boys in China sent off to the countryside during Mao's Cultural Revolution.
(CHN159, $12.95)
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Buddhist Art and Architecture
• Robert Fisher
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A wide-ranging, illustrated survey of Buddhist art, architecture and iconography in the excellent World of Art series. It includes examples from throughout Asia.
(ASA30, $18.95)
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The China Reader, The Reform Era
• Orville Schell
• David Shambaugh
• HISTORY
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A comprehensive and well-researched sourcebook on China over the last 25 years.
(CHN224, $17.95)
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Chinese Rugs: A Buyer's Guide
• Lee Allane
• GUIDEBOOK
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A guide to the history, techniques and variety of carpets produced throughout China, featuring a helpful buyer's guide.
(CHN30, $15.95)
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Culture Smart! Hong Kong
• Clare Vickers
• GUIDEBOOK
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A concise, well-illustrated and practical guide to local customs, etiquette and culture.
(HKG24, $9.95)
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Dragon Lady, The Life and Legend of the Last Empress of China
• Sterling Seagrave
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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(CHN229, $18.95)
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Edge of Empires, Chinese Elites and British Colonials in Hong Kong
• John Carroll
• HISTORY
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Carroll looks not just at the political history of British Hong Kong but also at the formation of clubs and associations, trade organizations and the role of the Chinese in this perceptive cultural study.
(HKG25, $41.50)
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Empress Orchid
• Anchee Min
• LITERATURE
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In this novel of the glorious, decadent last days of 19th-Century Imperial China, Min (Red Azalea, Becoming Madame Mao) combines her tale of a young girl from the provinces who marries an emperor -- and then improbably becomes the Last Empress -- with a lovingly re-created portrait of life in the Forbidden City.
(CHN267, $14.00)
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Farewell My Concubine
• Kaige Chen
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The moving story of a fifty-year friendship between two men who meet as children in the Peking Opera.
(CHN226, $14.99)
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Flashman and the Dragon
• George MacDonald Fraser
• LITERATURE
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The eighth entry in Fraser's popular series of 19th-century adventures starring Harry Flashman, the womanizing rogue and international troublemaker, set in 1860s China. In this installment, our reluctant hero is hoodwinked into joining the Teiping Rebellion, participates in the Seige of Nanking and ends up as a plaything of the Dowager Empress at the Summer Palace.
(CHN116, $15.00)
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A Fortune-Teller Told Me, Earthbound Travels in the Far East
• Tizanio Terzani
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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A peripatetic journalist sets off to Laos, Cambodia, Burma, Thailand, Mongolia, China, Japan and other far-flung destinations in this warm, anecdotal account.
(SEA35, $14.95)
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Frommer's Hong Kong Day by Day
• Alex Ortolani
• GUIDEBOOK
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A compact shirt pocket guide, ideal for a short visit.
(CHN511, $12.99)
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Frommer's Suzy Gershman's Born to Shop Hong Kong, Shanghai & Beijing, The Ultimate Guide for Travelers Who Love To Shop
• Suzy Gershman
• GUIDEBOOK
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A guide to shopping for designer labels, jade, porcelin and more.
(CHN397, $15.99)
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Giant Pandas In The Wild, Saving an Endangered Species
• Lu Zhi
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A portrait of the giant panda, its habitat in China and international conservation efforts. Includes excellent color photographs by George Schaller and text chronicling the lives of 20 individual pandas.
(CHN173, $35.00)
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God Lives in St. Petersburg, and Other Stories
• Tom Bissell
• LITERATURE
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Six fast-paced tales set in Kazakhstan, Afghanistan and the Aral Sea by the author of Chasing the Sea.
(CAS117, $13.95)
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The Golden Days
• Cao Xueqin
• David Hawkes
• LITERATURE
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The classic enchanting love story set in 18th-century China which follows the Jia family and the magical stone at the center of the tale.
(CHN223, $16.00)
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In the Mood for Love
• Kar Wai Wong
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Set in 1962 Hong Kong, this humble romance tells the story of two neighbors who discover that their spouses are having an affair.
(HKG20, $39.95)
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Insight Guides Southern China & Hong Kong
• Insight Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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This lavishly illustrated Insight guide includes excellent color maps and thoughtful short essays on history, culture and attractions.
(CHN482, $23.95)
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Knopf Mapguide Shanghai
• Knopf Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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Full-color foldout maps make this guidebook a handy and practical way to find information on where to go and what to do in the city.
(CHN283, $9.95)
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Knopf Mapguide, Hong Kong
• Knopf Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical and handy passport-sized guide to the city, featuring fold-out maps.
(HKG30, $9.95)
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The Last Emperor
• Bernardo Bertolucci
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Bernardo Bertolucci's Oscar-winning rendition of the true story of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi, the last emperor of China's Ching Dynasty.
(CHN225, $14.98)
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Look What Came From China!
• Miles Harvey
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)
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An illustrated guide to China, its products and inventions, for children ages 4-8.
(CHN155, $6.95)
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Love in a Fallen City
• Eileen Chang
• Karen S. Kingsbury
• LITERATURE
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A major 20th-century Chinese writer, little known in the U.S. (these sparkling new translations will go far to change that), Chang wrote these four fascinating novellas and two glittering stories in Japanese-occupied Shanghai in the 1940s. Her work is a revelation, poised tellingly between Confucian tradition and Western modernity.
(CHN387, $14.95)
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Mantles of Merit: Chin Textiles from Myanmar, India and Bangladesh
• David Fraser
• Barbara Fraser
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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An abundantly illustrated study of the textiles of the Chin peoples of southern and eastern Asia. With more than 600 color illustrations.
(ASA46, $60.00)
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Mao, The Unknown Story
• Jung Chang
• John Halliday
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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In this extraordinary biography Chang (Wild Swans) and her historian husband reveal Mao as a brutal, power-hungry monster with close ties to Joseph Stalin.
(CHN301, $18.95)
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Ming Furniture in the Light of Chinese Architecture
• Sarah Handler
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A beautifully illustrated overview of Ming furniture and its architectural setting.
(CHN318, $50.00)
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Mountain of Fame, Portraits in Chinese History
• John Wills
• HISTORY
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An intriguing, novel approach to Chinese history. Instead of marching through the dynasties, Wells illuminates themes and continuities within Chinese tradition through 20 representative personalities.
(CHN10, $26.95)
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National Geographic Traveler China
• Damian Harper
• GUIDEBOOK
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A generously illustrated guide to China with the usual National Geographic attention to maps and photographs. With a 50-page appendix of practical travel information.
(CHN163, $27.95)
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National Geographic Traveler Hong Kong
• Phil Macdonald
• GUIDEBOOK
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A compact guide featuring National Geographic's usual attention to maps and color photography.
(HKG37, $22.95)
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Odyssey Guide Three Gorges of the Yangtze River
• Raynor Shaw
• GUIDEBOOK
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Compact, illustrated and up-to-date, this excellent guide focuses on the 120-mile-long Three Gorges section of the Yangtzi, including Chongsing, Yichang and Wuhan. With 12 color maps and diagrams.
(CHN368, $21.95)
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Oracle Bones, A Journey Between China's Past and Present
• Peter Hessler
• HISTORY
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In this fine portrait of tumult and tradition, Hessler (River Town) finds clues to modern China's realities in the personal stories of peasants, scholars, day laborers and activists.
(CHN316, $15.95)
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The Painted Veil
• W. Somerset Maugham
• LITERATURE
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Originally published in 1925, Somerset's moving novel tells the story of a lovestruck adulterous woman whose husband forces her to accompany him to rural China in the midst of a cholera epidemic.
(HKG28, $13.95)
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Passions of the Cut Sleeve, The Male Homosexual Tradition in China
• Bret Hinsch
• LITERATURE
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A well-written, scholarly survey of the traditions of same-sex male love in Chinese literature.
(CHN167, $21.95)
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A Photographic Guide to the Birds of China
• John MacKinnon
• Nigel Hicks
• FIELD GUIDE
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A slim pocket guide to 252 of the most conspicuous birds of China, featuring color photographs, concise descriptions and range maps. 2nd edition.
(CHN29, $15.95)
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Pimsleur Quick & Simple Chinese (Cantonese)
• Pimsleur Language Method
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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An audio CD with eight 30-minute lessons in basic Cantonese, covering elementary vocabulary and phrases used in travel and everyday situations.
(CHN279, $19.95)
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Pimsleur Quick & Simple Chinese (Mandarin)
• Pimsleur Language Method
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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Four audio CDs with eight 30-minute lessons in basic Mandarin, covering elementary vocabulary and phrases used in travel and everyday situations.
(CHN280, $19.95)
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The Retreat of the Elephants, An Environmental History of China
• Mark Elvin
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A thorough examination of the damage that has been done to China's environment through war, modernization and new farming developments.
(CHN221, $22.00)
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Sky Burial, An Epic Love Story of Tibet
• Xinran
• LITERATURE
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In 1958, notified that her young husband, a doctor in the Chinese army has been killed in action in Tibet, Shu Wen joins the army, determined to go to Tibet to uncover the truth, only to find herself alone in Tibet, embarking on a thirty-year nomadic odyssey that brings her back to a new China, transformed by the Cultural Revolution.
(CHN282, $18.95)
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Song for the Blue Ocean, Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Seas
• Carl Safina
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A grand tour of our blue planet, divided geographically, this book is an excellent resource -- fascinating to read and full of hope. It combines a personal journey, hundreds of interviews with fisherman and scientists around the world, and a tour of important watery habitats.
(OCE09, $18.00)
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Southern China Map
• Nelles
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A detailed travel map of Southern China, from Taiwan to Hong Kong and the Yunnan Province, at a 1:1,500,000 scale.
(CHN27, $10.95)
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Streetlife China
• Michael Dutton
• ANTHOLOGY
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A scholarly collection of essays about the realities of living in modern-day China, by a variety of contributors.
(CHN222, $31.99)
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Three Ways of Thought in Ancient China
• Arthur Waley
• RELIGION
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An elegantly written, classic introduction to traditional Chinese philosophy.
(CHN164, $17.95)
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To Live
• Yimou Zhang
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Zhang Yimou's moving film follows one family from the 1940s through the 1960s in China.
(CHN227, $19.98)
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Travelers' Tales China
• James O'Reilly
• Larry Habegger
• Sean O'Reilly
• ANTHOLOGY
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This eclectic compendium reveals China's history and culture as told by its mostly modern travelers. Contributors include Peter Hessler, Mark Salzman, Gretel Ehrlich and Ji-Li Jiang.
(CHN217, $18.95)
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A Traveller's History of China
• Stephen G. Haw
• HISTORY
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An admirably brief, lively history of China from early origins to today, remarkably clear and necessarily condensed. With a historical gazetteer, chronology and list of dynasties.
(CHN43, $14.95)
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Video Night in Kathmandu, and Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East
• Pico Iyer
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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A vivid collection of tales on a variety of Asian locales including Bali, Hong Kong, and Bangkok.
(ASA02, $14.95)
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Waiting
• Ha Jin
• LITERATURE
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A spare, haunting story of a military doctor who tries for 18 years to divorce his peasant wife so he can marry a more sophisticated nurse at his hospital. Greatly evocative of quotidian life in China during the Cultural Revolution and after.
(CHN80, $14.95)
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Where Hong Kong Cityguide
• Where Magazine
• GUIDEBOOK
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A sturdy pocket guide to top city sights, helpfully keyed to overview maps and featuring a detailed downtown PopOut map.
(HKG34, $9.95)
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Wild West China, The Taming of Xinjiang
• Christian Tyler
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A portrait of the changing face of the Xinjiang region in northwest China.
(CHN231, $27.95)
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A Woman's Asia
• Marybeth Bond
• ANTHOLOGY
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These thirty-five personal, often hilarious accounts of women's adventures from China to Sri Lanka to Turkey to Bhutan, not only illuminating the everyday, oft-overlooked cultural practices of Asia, but also giving a glimpse into the thoughts and feelings of the female traveller.
(ASA49, $17.95)
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World Religions: Eastern Traditions
• Willard G. Oxtoby
• RELIGION
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A clear and insightful introduction to Eastern religions by a team of scholars, covering Hindu, Jain, Sikh, Buddhist and East Asian traditions. Scholarly, but still rewarding for the general reader.
(ASA07, $62.95)
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Yangtze
• Philip Wilkinson
• NATURAL HISTORY
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(CHN320, $40.00)
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Yangzi River Map
• Richard Perry Hayman
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A full-color, comprehensive map of the Yangzi River and Three Gorges for the traveler, at a scale of 1:1,000,000. Features 10 maps, color photos, and shows the river from the Himalayas to the East China Sea.
(CHN177, $14.95)
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