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The Yellow Riding Jacket
Richard Shen
出版Xlibris Corporation LLC, 2008-09
主題Fiction / Historical / General
ISBN14363086589781436308656
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=HyvDwAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋This saga of the Lindleys, father and son, revolves around events that lead to the opening of China during the nineteenth century. The Chinese destroy British opium cargo, causing British invasion and annexation of Hong Kong. Lindley takes a Chinese wife, who bears him a son, Gus. Gus is educated in England, but his father dies. To rejoin his mother, Gus joins the Anglo-French campaign that vandalizes the summer palace. Gus switches sides to help a Chinese Christian insurgency against the Tartar emperor. Readers will apprecia