Latein The Sisters Mao, Gavin McCrea’s compendious and surprising second novel, an unexpected encounter takes place in Beijing. It is 1974, and Jiang Qing, the redoubtable wife of Chairman Mao ...

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The Sisters Mao, second in a planned ... Mao’s fourth wife, is rehearsing a gala performance of a model ballet, The Red Detachment of Women, in honour of Imelda Marcos’s state visit.