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Cyril Birch

Cyril Birch is a translator and the Agassiz Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley.

Ming Minx

The Golden Lotus

translated by Colonel Clement Egerton

January 24, 1974 issue

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