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Peach Blossom Paradise by Ge Fei is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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**A meditation on revolution, idealism, and utopia by one of China's greatest living novelists.**In 1898, China experienced one hundred days of utopia, after a cabal of reformist intellectuals persuaded the young emperor to enact sweeping changes intended to modernize the country and bring about the "Great Unity." Their movement ended in blood and the crowning of two more dictators, but not before it whetted an appetite for revolution all across the country -- an appetite that would eventually consume millions of lives.One such life belongs to Xiumi, the young daughter of a wealthy landowner and former government official who goes insane over a painting, then mysteriously disappears. Days later, Xiumi's mother welcomes to the estate a young man who carries a grand but brutal vision in his heart and a gold cicada in his pocket. When his plans collapse, Xiumi inherits his vision, just as she herself begins fighting the Confucian social mores that view women as...

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Author

Ge Fei

Publisher

New York Review Books

Published

2020

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction