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Dai Sijie

“[On Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress ] The influence of literature is universal. [The story] was not only an ode to the literature we had read, but also simply to show that in a difficult situation, we, at that young age, had a yearning to learn, to see new things and nice things”

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