Born during the Great Famine of the early 1960s, Hong Ying grew up in a slum on the hilly Yangtze bank, constantly aware of the sacrifices her family made so that she would survive. Nearing her eighteenth birthday, she became determined to unravel some of the enigmas that had troubled her all her life- a stalker who had shadowed her since childhood, an anomalous record in her father's government file, and an unshakable feeling that she was an outsider in her own family. With fearless honest Daughter of the River follows China's trajectory through one woman's life, from the Great Famine through to the Cultural Revolution, and beyond to the horrifying events in Tian'anmen Square.

From her upbringing in the slums of Chongqing to her sexual and intellectual awakening to her search to unravel the mystery of her birth, a coming-of-age portrait by a renowned poet and novelist details her turbulent life against the backdrop of Communist China.

Ancient Chinese erotic arts meet 1930s Bloomsbury values in this true story of cross-cultural passion.

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'Like all Hong Ying's work, K is written with a wonderfully intense simplicity - it's tough, uncompromising, direct and tense with strong emotion, but also full of poetry and grace.' - Andrew Motion Sold by her uncle in 1907 to the First Salon of Gifted Girls, a reputable brothel, sixteen-year-old Cassia is plucked from the ranks of servant girl by a powerful client. Power Chang is the boss of the fearsome Shanghai Triad. In spite of her large feet and pendulous breasts, both unbound, Cassia swiftly becomes his favorite mistress and enjoys her first passionate encounters as well as her first taste of luxurious living. The story follows Cassia after the violent death of Power Chang and her subsequent rise to 'godmother' of Shanghai. She not only seduces the next Triad boss, Huang, after he hears her opera troupe, but also his lacky, Yu, who replaces the murdered Huang as the next Triad leader. This novel will appeal to anyone interested in China, triad politics and history, and the position of women as sexual slaves to men in Shanghai's houses of ill repute. Hong Ying grew up in the 1960s in the slums of Chongquing on the Yangtze River in China. An author and poetess, she is best known in the English-speaking world for her novels K: The Art of Love, Peacock Cries, Summer of Betrayal, and her autobiography, Daughter of the River.

At dawn on the June morning in 1989 following the brutal repression of student demonstrations in Beijing, a young poet flees the bullets, tanks, and soldiers, trying desperately to get back to the flat she shares with her lover. When she discovers him in bed with his estranged wife, she must strike out again - and alone - into the maelstrom of terror and risk that Beijing has become. In the ensuing months, as she is all but overwhelmed by painful memories of the past and by the turmoil of the present, she goes through a kind of sea change: sexual freedom and erotic liberation seem to be the only freedoms left to her, but these, too, may lead to betrayal, and she must find her bearings on her own. This remarkable first novel by a striking young Chinese author is a lyrical, outspoken account of a major turning point in Chinese history, and a cri de coeur from the generation that instigated the bold initiatives of 1989 and suffered most from the cruelties that followed. Summer of Betrayal was published in Taiwan in 1992; though banned in China, it circulated widely there. This is its first publication in the West.

Based on a true story, K tells the story of the passionate and illicit affair between Julian Bell (son of Vanessa Bell and nephew of Virginia Woolf) the darling of the Bloomsbury set and the beautiful Chinese writer and intellectual Lin Cheng. Set against the vivid backdrop of decadent 1930s Peking, Lin teaches Julian the Daoist Art of Love - but the country around them is divided by cultural conflict and overshadowed by impending war, which will impact on both of their lives.

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