Novel gives voice to the girls Mao Zedong had sex with, in the powerful form of a confessional

Vanessa Hua’s Forbidden City cleverly frames its subject matter in the form of a confessional by the fictional Mei Xiang, whisked off the dance floor at China’s Zhongnanhai leadership compound and into a notorious side room.

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