China’s Scarlet Letter
It was a scarlet red A that the author Nathaniel Hawthorne used to ostracize characters in his novel, "The Scarlet Letter." If a character bore the infamous letter she was condemned and isolated from society as an adulteress.
It seems sometimes art imitates life, although in China it is not fidelity but blood that is separating people from their communit…
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