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The year is 1881, the era of China's humiliation at the hands of imperialist Europe. Seven-year-old Jinhua is left only and unprotected, her life altered after her mandarin father's overview execution for the criminal offenses of speaking the reality. As an orphan, she endures the brutal reasoning of a brothel-keeper who sets her to are a so-called money tree, and she survives the worst of human dynamics with the a friendly relationship and intelligence of the crippled brothel maid. When a stylish but stressed scholar takes Jinhua as his concubine, she leaves both the trauma of brothel life and the comfort of a friendly relationship behind and encounters for the very first time the tantalizing and elusive notion of "Great Love." She vacations with her emissary hubby to Europe and discovers there the mesmerizing strangeness, irresistible sensualities, and incredible possibilities of fin de siècle Vienna while battling contrary to the constraints of custom and her husband's wishes. Sai Jinhua is an altered girl when she comes back to a adjusted and changing China, where a bad clash of East and West is producing and where her European sympathies will ultimately threaten not only her own success but the success of those who are most dear to her. The Courtesan is a classic tale of a friendly relationship and sacrifice, temptation and redemption, the storyline of a woman's trip to discern what's real and abiding, and a e book that shines a tiny light on the top record of China's relationships with the West.

Category: Historical