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Summary

This rich and nuanced portrait of eighteenth-century China follows a Chinese girl'             s path to enlightenment. At the midpoint of the Manchus' long sway over the largest empire in China's history, a young girl stands reluctantly on the brink of womanhood. Lotus, the Empress Dowager's servant, decides to follow a spiritual path through the Forbidden City. She travels down routes of erotic fancy in search of a place called Mandala, where life's troubles are left behind.

Duration: about 4 hours (04:28:57)
Publishing date: 1997-01-01; Abridged; Copyright Year: — Copyright Statment: —

• Contemporary Fiction
• Historical Novel