After the death of her father – a Chinese spy and CIA mole – Chinese-American scholar Lilian Shang reads his diary and investigates his past in China. (Pantheon, 304 pp.)

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After the death of her father – a Chinese spy and CIA mole – Chinese-American scholar Lilian Shang reads his diary and investigates his past in China. (Pantheon, 304 pp.)
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