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Beyond the Heavenly Kingdom is the next book in a string occur the mid-19th century and practices Tienkuo: The Heavenly Kingdom, which followed the lives of Jason Brandt; his partner, Black colored Jade; and his scholar good friend Wu Sek-chong through the Chinese Civil War. With this second book, Brandt and Black colored Jade travel from Shanghai to Boston in the years following American Civil War. Americans of that era, increasingly restless about competition from lower wage Chinese immigrants, demanded an end to all or any immigration from China, which culminated in the Chinese Exclusion Take action of 1882. In this book inspired by Symbol Twain's travel memoir Innocents Abroad, Brandt, a Shanghai-based American journalist, imagines writing a publication that chronicles his own vacations. He and Black colored Jade journey to Boston, where his daddy, a retired Christian missionary, lives. For the journey, Brandt and Black colored Jade observe the Troy Girl Seminary, a pioneering girls' university in Upstate NY, and imagine opening a similar university in China. Along the way, they encounter genuine historical numbers - including Chief executive Grant, Symbol Twain, and Senator Charles Sumner - as well as literary individuals such as Phileas Fogg. Travel with them as they come to grips with a changing world that shares many parallels with our own.
