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NPR's Rob Gifford reports from Shanghai that a new trend in Chinese fiction has outraged Communist authorities. A group of young, attractive women known as the "beautiful writers" is churning out novels that graphically describe the hedonism of modern urban China. The most controversial among them is a 27-year-old named Wei Hui (Way Hway), who lives in Shanghai. Authorities considered her first novel, titled Shanghai baby, so objectionable that it's been banned, but that hardly stops people from reading it.
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