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This collection of three interlinked stories is set in the height of the Cultural Revolution in China. Damned relates the friendship between two primary school girls and the darkness that destroys it.In Transfer, the narrator recounts herMoreThis collection of three interlinked stories is set in the height of the Cultural Revolution in China. Damned relates the friendship between two primary school girls and the darkness that destroys it.In Transfer, the narrator recounts her excitement about moving to another city and the inevitable disappointment awaiting her when fantasy meets reality.In the title story The Subject, a girl who loves her composition classes has to rely on lying to write stories about good people and good deeds. Sick of it, she decides to do good deeds so she has something genuine to write about. But when she does, it turns out not the way she has expected. The story, now revised, was the winner of Boulevard magazine’s 2001 Short Story Contest for Emerging Writer. The Subject and Two Other Stories of a Childhood in China by Yaxue Cao
