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Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused: Fiction from Today's China Condition:Very Good many of whom learned theChairman Mao Would Not Be Amused is a showcase for 20 writers from the new literary generation in China. Hard core realism, experimental prose, and black humor; exoticism and eroticism; shocking tales of brutality, tender evocations of love, and engrossing mysteries all coexist in an anthology that spans nearly a decade, ten years that have witnessed a dizzying array of societal and political changes. Almost all of the stories appear in English