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Could not take it, it's so unlike my taste

This book is terrific! Some stories made my skin crawl, hard to imagine living those times by the Chinese women. I already want to read all books by Xinran!

This book is terrific! Some stories made my skin crawl, hard to imagine living those times by the Chinese women. I already want to read all books by Xinran!

“Can it be that there is not room for all men on this beautiful earth under these immeasurable starry heavens? Can it be possible that in the midst of this entrancing nature, feelings of hatred, vengeance, or the passion for exterminating their fellows can endure in the souls of men?”

“Millions of men, renouncing their human feelings and reason, had to go from west to east to slay their fellows just as some centuries previously hordes of men had come from the east to the west, slaying their fellows. ... The more we try to explain such events in history reasonably, the more unreasonable and incomprehensible do they become to us.”