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from pierthinker

Not so much a novel, but a collection of more or less connected stories intended to show the emergence of modern-day China from the opium smuggling days at the beginning of the 19th century through to the Boxer Rebellion and the subsequent fall of the imperial dynasty at the start of the 20th cen...

from PeggyDean

I have been a fan of this author since reading Manhattan and was excited that he had a new book. I think of Rutherfurd as a current-day James Michener. His novels trace the history of a location through generations of fictional families. China had a somewhat shorter timeline - the years from the ...

from santhony

I've read every book written by Edward Rutherfurd, and have found them all to be very readable and educational. He writes very much in the same style and genre as James Michener, though perhaps just a slight cut below Michener's best work. This book differs slightly from that of both Michener an...