Jade Dragon Mountain : A Mystery

from bell7

Li Du is an exiled librarian traveling through China, and did not at all mean to come to the village of Dayan at the same time as the emperor. A few days before a grand festival in which the emperor - or Kangxi as he was known in 1708 - is to make a prediction of a solar eclipse, a Jesuit scholar...

from Meredy

Six-word review: Stories reveal truth, stories conceal it. Extended review: I really liked this book, and so I'm inclined to be forgiving of its little lapses; but that does not necessarily mean that they pass without notice. The setting is a provincial city in China, far from the capital of Beij...

from Amelia_Smith

I picked up this book because I spent some time in Western Sichuan, in the same general cultural zone as Dayan (border of China and Tibet), and you don't see a lot of books from those parts.It was really enjoyable. My only major complaint is that the main mystery was solved chapters and chapters ...

from LisCarey

Li Du is a Chinese scholar, formerly a librarian in the imperial library. Now,in 1780, after a political scandal in which he was collateral damage, he's an exile wandering China. His wanderings have brought him to Dayan, a Chinese town on the Tibetan border, and he expects a quiet, provincial tow...

from GarySeverance

Jade Dragon Mountain is the first novel of Elsa Hart, and I hope to read more of her novels in the future. I thoroughly enjoyed reading the story of Li Du, a librarian of the Forbidden City in China exiled for his friendship with traitors. In the early 18th Century, after almost five years of tra...