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Chinese flock to buy the first soft porn magazines - called 'yellow books' because they show bare flesh - legally produced in the country

Thursday 18 March 1993 00:02 GMT
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A man eyes pornographic magazines next to posters of Mao Tse-tung and China's present leader, Deng Xiaoping. The 'books' sell for 30 yuan (pounds 3).

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