Edition |
First U.S. edition. |
Description |
288 pages ; 21 cm |
Note |
"Reading group guide inside"--Cover. |
Summary |
Peking, 1914. When the eight-year-old princess Eastern Jewel is caught spying on her father's liaison with a servant girl, she is banished from the palace, sent to live with a powerful family in Japan. Renamed Yoshiko Kawashima, she quickly falls in love with her adoptive country, where she earns a scandalous reputation, taking fencing lessons, smoking opium, and entertaining numerous lovers. Sent to Mongolia to become an obedient wife, Yoshiko mounts a daring escape and eventually finds her way back to Peking high society--this time with orders from the Japanese secret service. |
Subject |
Kawashima, Yoshiko, 1906?-1948 -- Fiction.
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Princesses -- China -- Fiction.
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Women spies -- Japan -- Fiction.
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Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- Fiction.
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China -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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ISBN |
9781596917033 paperback $14.00 |
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1596917032 |
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