Bound 28th January 2020
Bound to her late father’s second wife and daughter. Bound to a life of servitude as a young girl in ancient China, where a woman is valued less than livestock. Bound to be alone, with no parents to arrange...
Blogs in January 2020
Dream of the Red Chamber 28th January 2020
For more than a century and a half, Dream of the Red Chamber has been recognized in China as the greatest of its novels, a Chinese Romeo-and-Juliet love story and a portrait of one of the world’s great civilizations....
Skeleton Women 28th January 2020
Once upon a time in China, the most beautiful and gifted women were known as “skeleton women”–the ultimate femme fatales who could bring a man to his knees, or to his doom. . . When Camilla, a young orphan...
Pavilion of Women 28th January 2020
On her fortieth birthday, Madame Wu carries out a decision she has been planning for a long time: she tells her husband that after twenty-four years their physical life together is now over and she wishes him to take...
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