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THE DRAGON'S GHOST eBook Series

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  • THE DRAGON'S GHOST - An Opium War Novel

    by Guy Hee ...
    Series Book 1 - THE DRAGON'S GHOST
    An empire built on opium. A city drowning in secrets. A forbidden alliance that could destroy them both.Canton, 1839. As tensions between Britain and Qing China move steadily toward war, Mei Xinyue serves in the shadows of Commissioner Lin’s campaign against the foreign opium trade. Trained to observe what others overlook, she follows a trail of coded accounts, protected warehouses, murdered ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Good Earth Trilogy

    The Good Earth, Sons, and A House Divided

    by Pearl S. Buck ...
    Series series The Good Earth Trilogy
    The New York Times –bestselling trilogy: A Pulitzer Prize–winning classic novel of China, together with its two sequels—by the Nobel Prize winner.The Good Earth: With luck and hard work, Chinese peasant farmer Wang Lung and his wife O-lan, a former slave, improve their fortune. They have sons and save steadily until one day they can afford to buy property in the House of Wang—the very house in ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dragon Seed: The Story of China at War

    The Story of China at War

    by Pearl S. Buck ...
    A Nobel laureate’s gripping historical novel about the Japanese invasion of NankingFarmer Liang Tan knows only a quiet, traditional life in his remote Chinese farming community. When news filters in that Japanese forces are invading the country, he and his fellow villagers believe that if they behave decently to the Japanese soldiers, the civilians might remain undisturbed. They’re in for a shock, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Hidden Moon

    A Lotus Palace Mystery

    by Jeannie Lin ...
    Series Book 4 - The Lotus Palace Mysteries
    A well-bred lady and lowly street hustler team up in a historical murder mystery set during China's glittering Tang Dynasty. Part of the best-selling Lotus Palace series. ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Outlaws of the Marsh

    by Shi Nai'an and Luo Guanzhong ...
    The legendary account of 108 "Stars from Heaven" who, faced with a corrupt bureaucracy, flee to Liangshan Marsh, from a fortress there thwarting minions of the evil regime while continuing to serve the emperor. In its mix of politics, military tactics, action, martial arts, magic, and even the bawdy (the chapters on Wu Song laying the groundwork for Jin Ping Mei), this beloved novel is an ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Judge Dee at Work

    by Robert van Gulik ...
    Series series The Judge Dee Mysteries
    "A pleasing collection of short stories about Chinese detective Judge Dee—an actual historical personage of the T'ang Dynasty."— Kirkus ReviewsA Dutch scholar, linguist, and diplomat who grew up immersed in Asian culture, Robert van Gulik discovered and translated an eighteenth-century Chinese crime novel he'd found in an antiquarian bookstore. Its success led him to write multiple mysteries ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Water Margin

    Outlaws of the Marsh

    by Shi Naian ...
    Translated by J.H. Jackson ...
    Based upon the historical bandit Song Jiang and his companions, The Water Margin is an epic tale of rebellion against tyranny that will remind Western readers of the English classic Robin Hood and His Merry Men.This edition of the classic J. H. Jackson translation brings a story that has been inspiring readers for hundreds of years to life for modern audiences. It features a new preface and ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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  • Red Blossom in Snow

    A Lotus Palace Mystery

    by Jeannie Lin ...
    Series Book 5 - The Lotus Palace Mysteries
    Murder and Forbidden Love in the Tang Dynasty Magistrate Li Chen and celebrated courtesan Song Yi become entangled in a murder investigation when an outsider to the Pingkang li is found strangled in a pleasure house. As they search for the truth, the secrets they uncover turn out to be their own. ... Read more

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  • Murder in the Forbidden City

    A Historical Mystery

    by Amanda Roberts ...
    Series Book 1 - Qing Dynasty Mysteries
    Peking, 1867When one of the Empress's ladies-in-waiting is killed in the Forbidden City, she orders Inspector Gong to find the killer. Unfortunately, as a man, he is forbidden from entering the Inner Court. How is he supposed to solve a murder when he cannot visit the scene of the crime or talk to the women in the victim's life? He won't be able to solve this crime alone.The widowed Lady Li is ... Read more

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  • The Heiress Who Burned Her Past

    by Angus Blakley ...
    Jiang Zhinian was a noble lady meticulously raised by an aristocratic family. Talented in all arts and skilled in strategy, she was shocked to learn on her coming-of-age day that she was actually a fake heiress who had been mistakenly swapped at birth.In her previous life, she had given everything to support the Jiang family—advising her brother in the complex political court, managing household ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • Breaking Bamboo

    by Tim Murgatroyd ...
    Series Book 2 - Medieval China Trilogy
    Central China, 1264. When Mongol armies storm into the Middle Kingdom, the descendents of Yun Cai (Taming Poison Dragons) are trapped in a desperate siege that will determine the fate of the Empire. Guang and Shih are identical twins, one a heroic soldier idolised by the city he defends, the other a humble doctor. In the midst of war, jealous conflicts over Shih's wife and concubine threaten to ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • A Daughter Of Han

    by Ning Lao T'ai-t'ai ...
    Within the common destiny is the individual destiny. So it is that through the telling of one Chinese peasant woman's life, a vivid vision of Chinese history and culture is illuminated. Over the course of two years, Ida Pruitt—a bicultural social worker, writer, and contributor to Sino-American understanding—visited with Ning Lao T'ai-ta'i, three times a week for breakfast. These meetings, ... Read more

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