Synopsis
Sold by her aunt in 1907 as a maid to a brothel, 16-year-old Cassia is plucked from the ranks of servant girl by a client, Power Chang, the boss of the fearsome Shanghai Triad. In spite of her large feet and pendulous breasts, both unbound, she becomes his favourite mistress and enjoys her first passionate encounters.
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Hong Ying was born in Chingqing in 1962 into a boat sailor's family. She was the sixth child in a family of eight, and endured great poverty and hunger as a child during the Great Famine and the Cultural Revolution.
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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 *
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