Includes "Reading Group Gold" section (p. [2-13], and reading group guide (p. [12-13]).
Summary:
Li-Xia, the daughter of a young concubine to an old silk farmer in rural China, escapes her destiny of becoming a concubine by outwitting her father's orders to bind her feet and running away with an English sea captain, and takes her first steps towards fulfilling her mother's dream of becoming a scholar.
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