Peking, 1914. Eight–year-old Eastern Jewel, daughter of Prince Su’s last concubine, peers from behind a screen as her father makes love to a servant girl. Banished to live with relatives in Tokyo, she is then forced to marriage in bleak Mongolia. At night she is plagued by unsettling dreams.

Peking, 1914. Eight–year-old Eastern Jewel, daughter of Prince Su’s last concubine, peers from behind a screen as her father makes love to a servant girl.

Peking, Complete, Unabridged