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Electronic reproduction. New York Penguin Publishing Group 2015 Available via World Wide Web. |
| Contents |
Autumn begins -- Art of the bedchamber -- Facing Madam Hong -- Palais Kinsky -- Hall of midsummer dreams -- The concubine's child. |
| Summary |
The year is 1881, the era of China's humiliation at the hands of imperialist Europe. Seven-year-old Jinhua is left alone and unprotected, her life transformed after her mandarin father's summary execution for the crime of speaking the truth. As an orphan, she endures the brutal logic of a brothel-keeper, who puts her to work as a so-called money tree, and she survives the worst of human nature with the friendship and wisdom of the crippled brothel maid. When an elegant but troubled scholar takes Jinhua as his concubine, she leaves both the trauma of brothel life and the comfort of friendship behind and encounters for the first time the tantalizing and elusive notion of "Great Love." |
| System details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Format: Adobe EPUB eBook. |
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Format: OverDrive Read. |
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Requires Adobe Digital Editions. |
| Subject |
Orphans -- Fiction.
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Brothels -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Historical fiction.
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| Subject |
China -- History -- 1861-1912 -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Electronic books.
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| Other corporate author |
OverDrive, Inc.
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| ISBN |
9780698405271
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| STANDARD # |
B9F511AC-7E2E-47D8-8926-0D6C18BE7ACF OverDrive |
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