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The Concubine of Shanghai Hong Ying

The Concubine of Shanghai par Hong Ying

The Concubine of Shanghai Hong Ying

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Résumé

It's China, 1907. Sixteen-year-old orphan Cassia is sold by her aunt to a brothel. There, she works as a lowly maid for Madame Emerald until a powerful and dangerous client plucks her from obscurity. Master Chang is the boss of the fearsome Shanghai Triad and he always gets what he wants.

The Concubine of Shanghai Résumé

The Concubine of Shanghai Hong Ying

China, 1907. Sixteen-year-old orphan Cassia is sold by her aunt to a brothel. There, she works as a lowly maid for Madame Emerald until a powerful and dangerous client plucks her from obscurity.

Master Chang is the boss of the fearsome Shanghai Triad and he always gets what he wants. Despite her unbound feet and breasts, Cassia swiftly becomes Chang's favourite mistress. He showers her with luxuries as he embarks on her sexual awakening.

But Chang's world is violent and precarious, and those such as Cassia who depend on him are bound to his fate . . .

The Concubine of Shanghai Avis

A brilliant and sensitive writer -- Jung Chang, author of Wild Swans
A fascinating, full-blooded yarn which has the reader rooting for its heroine, a kind of Chinese Moll Flanders, every inch of the way * Independent on Sunday *
A beautiful and gripping writer -- Tariq Ali * Independent *

À propos de Hong Ying

Hong Ying was born into a sailor's family in Chongqing on the Yangtze River in Southwest China. An author and poet, she began her career as a full-time writer in the early 1980s having studied creative writing at Lu Xun Creative Writing Academy and Fudan University.

She is best known in the English-speaking world for her novels: K: The Art of Love (which won the Prix de Rome in 2005), The Concubine of Shanghai, Peacock Cries and Summer of Betrayal. Her autobiography, Daughter of the River, has been translated into twenty-nine languages and many of her works have been turned into television series and films. Her latest memoir, Good Children of the Flowers, a sequel to Daughter of the River, won Asia Weekly's Top Ten Books of the Year Award 2009. She lives in Beijing with her husband and daughter.

Informations supplémentaires

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The Concubine of Shanghai Hong Ying
Hong Ying
Occasion - Très bon état
Broché
Penguin Books Ltd
2011-01-27
400
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