In the spring of 2232, long-denied hopes for a more humane world become manifest in the red-roofed houses of "China on the Rhine". There, Emily Ascher, once a freedom fighter, now lives as Mama Em, mother to the orphan boys of a war-devastated land. But unto the people of Chung Kuo, two children will be born: "Coffin Filler", a baby girl smothered and thrown away but not yet dead, and Josef, a baby boy delivered...
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