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After the First Opium War of 1840, China is in turmoil. In the south, insurrection threatens. In Shanghai, 'barbaric' Western influence is spreading. On all sides, the dazzling old world of Imperial China faces the onslaught of the new.
Against the rich and turbulent backcloth of China under the Great Pure Dynasty of the Manchus, MANDARIN unfolds an epic tale of love, war and ambition, peopled by characters who will haunt every reader's memory: the merchant Saul Haleevie, bidding for power alongside the great European trading houses... his daughter Fronah, torn between love and virtue...above all, the 'Virtuous Concubine' Yehenala, whose destiny would one day be inextricably linked with that of China itself...
Against the rich and turbulent backcloth of China under the Great Pure Dynasty of the Manchus, MANDARIN unfolds an epic tale of love, war and ambition, peopled by characters who will haunt every reader's memory: the merchant Saul Haleevie, bidding for power alongside the great European trading houses... his daughter Fronah, torn between love and virtue...above all, the 'Virtuous Concubine' Yehenala, whose destiny would one day be inextricably linked with that of China itself...