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Fiction. DREAM OF THE DRAGON POOL: A DAOIST QUEST is a multifaceted novel woven around the historical fact of the death-sentence exile of China's best loved poet-adventurer, Li Bo (also Li Bai, 701-762 A.D.). This is an adventure story of magic, myth, and occult powers written as traditional Chinese-style wu-xia (heroic) fiction. Albert A. Dalia is a China scholar with four decades of study, research, and experience in medieval Chinese history and culture. Two decades ago, after earning two masters degrees and a Ph.D. in Chinese history and religion, he turned to fiction writing and produced a series of published short stories and, now, his first novel. More info: wanderingblade.com
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Albert A. Dalia is a China scholar with four decades of study, research, and experience in medieval Chinese history and culture. Two decades ago, after earning two masters degrees and a Ph.D. in Chinese history and religion, he turned to fiction writing and produced a series of published short stories and, now, his first novel.
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At the start of this simplistic debut fantasy from Dalia, a Western scholar of China, the renowned poet Li Bo (based on the historical figure, Li Bai, A.D. 701-762) is drinking too much and writing too little since his exile from the emperor's court. Accompanied by his friend Ah Wu, a deadly crossbowman, Li Bo seeks guidance at the Dream Temple, where an immortal bequeaths him the magical Dragon Pool sword and assigns him a quest that will restore his literary powers. Li Bo must bring the sword to a rain goddess who inhabits a 12-peaked mountain in the Yangtze River's Three Gorges, but the sword attracts some dangerous characters: a blood dragon and his enslaved golden-haired ghost, as well as a ruthless albino swordsman. The beautiful Shamaness Luo, on a separate spiritual quest, is also headed to the 12-peaked mountain. While the story aspires to romantic chinoiserie, the bulk of it remains stubbornly earthbound.
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- PublisherPleasure Boat Studio
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 1929355343
- ISBN 13 9781929355341
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages335
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