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In Beijing, Carrie Gracie traces the life of one woman whose experiences have mirrored every twist and turn of the Sino-Soviet relationship. Inna's father was a famous Chinese Communist and revolutionary, her mother a Russian intellectual, and she grew up in Beijing amid revolutionary ferment. She has survived the high points and lowest ebb of the Russian-Chinese relationship, that axis of the 'big brother' and 'little brother' of world socialism - and she is still very picky about how to serve borscht properly.

(Photo: The exterior of Beijing's Moscow Restaurant, a showcase for Russian-Chinese relations for decades (c) 麻豆社)