View China from the perspective of its very best modern writers in this excellent anthology of short fiction, organized geographically. Twelve diverse writers take the reader from the mountains and streams of West Hunan to the silk-worm raising country of Zhejiang, high plateau of western Sichuan, the sorghum fields of Shandong and the pastoral Northeast.  (CHN520, $14.95)

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