City of the queen : a novel of colonial Hong Kong /

After being kidnapped from her home in rural China, Huang is taken to Hong Kong and sold into prostitution. Yet thanks to her shrewd, sometimes devious business dealings and several twists of fate, she overcomes these cruel beginnings and finds success as a wealthy landowner. What follows is the epi...

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Autore principale: Shi, Shuqing, 1945- (Autore)
Altri autori: Lin, Sylvia Li-chun (Traduttore), Goldblatt, Howard, 1939- (Traduttore)
Natura: Licensed eBooks
Lingua:inglese
cinese
Pubblicazione: New York : Columbia University Press ©2005.
Serie:Modern Chinese literature from Taiwan.
Accesso online:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/shu-13456