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Fourth Estate
An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers

First published in Australia in 2009
This edition published in 2010
by HarperCollinsPublishers Australia Pty Limited

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The right of Linda Jaivin to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her under the Copyright Amendment (Moral Rights) Act 2000.

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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data:

Jaivin, Linda.

A most immoral woman / Linda Jaivin.

ISBN: 978 0 7322 8277 6 (pbk.)

ISBN: 978 0 7304 4597 5 (ePub)

Foreign correspondents-Fiction.

Peking (China)-Fiction.

A823.3