Friday, November 19, 2010

I Wanna... My Splendid Concubine by Lloyd Lofthouse

My Splendid Concubine by Lloyd Lofthouse

No Westerner has ever achieved Robert Hart's status and level of power in China. During the nineteenth century, driven by a passion for his adopted country, Hart became the "godfather of China's modernism," inspector general of China's Customs Service, and the builder of China's railroads, postal and telegraph systems, and schools, but his first real love is Ayaou, a young concubine.

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