A Looking-Glass World

*A Looking-Glass World *is a portrait of an exhilarating cross-cultural romance that recaptures a traumatic moment in China’s relationship with the West – the Boxer uprising and its brutal suppression by the colonial powers – suggesting that tragedy is not only the loss of life; it is also the loss of what could have been.

<p>1900. For Tianjin’s European colonists a profitable new century is dawning, but for the city’s downtrodden Chinese natives the Zodiac cycle’s end signals imminent catastrophe. Meanwhile the fearsome Boxer warriors – said by some to be bulletproof – are spilling in from the provinces.<p>

<p>On restless streets, a dangerous liaison begins. Ouyang Jue, gentle layabout and heir to a merchant fortune, finds himself entangled with Xénia, a French officer’s daughter indulging every impulse on her first visit to China. Each sees liberation in the other; a chance to leap through the mirror and escape the mundane.<p>

<p>Separated by the widening divide between their two worlds, the lovers were never meant to be. But as discontent sparks into all-out conflagration, will they find paradise behind the glass? Or will they join the ashes of what might have been?<p>

• | Author: Feng Jicai, Olivia Milburn
• | Publisher: ACA Publishing Limited
• | Publication Date: Jun 14, 2021
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9781838905149
• | ISBN-10: 1838905146