Title and description based on available researched data. Read by Emily Woo Zeller.
Contents:
Autumn begins -- Art of the bedchamber -- Facing Madam Hong -- Palais Kinsky -- Hall of midsummer dreams -- The concubine's child.
Summary:
A novel inspired by the life of Qing dynasty courtesan Sai Jinhua follows the experiences of an orphan whose world transforms when she becomes an emissary's concubine during the late-nineteenth-century clashes between China and imperialist Europe.
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