epub |eng | 2018-05-10 | Author:Edward C. Patterson [Patterson, Edward C.]

Chapter Four Return to Su-chou 1 And so we came to the walls of Su-chou — the place of my earliest recollections of my master’s celebrated official career. It was ...

epub |eng | 2014-01-15 | Author:Edward C Patterson [Patterson, Edward C]

The snow fell heavily. Despite a chilling wind, the stench of burning flesh, which His Majesty found bracing, sickened anyone who had survived the destruction of Huai-shan-t’ou. Hai-ling halted in ...

epub |eng | 2011-10-30 | Author:Edward C. Patterson [Patterson, Edward C.]

Prince Wei was given the seat of honor. Nan Ya and K’ang Yu-wei flanked him. The tent pavilion had been erected on a bluff that Fu Lin-t’o recognized as being ...

epub |eng | 2009-03-01 | Author:Edward C. Patterson [Patterson, Edward C.]

May he live ten thousand years. Ah, but he didn’t. I sometimes think of that hulk of an Emperor, in all his shining glory, finishing his life out in the ...

epub |eng | 2024-06-22 | Author:Jade Lee [Lee, Jade]

epub |eng | | Author:Blaze Ward

Wan-Xian leaned out just enough to peek in through the open window. It was a splendid room, with a large bed surrounded by silk canopies pulled back. A woman sat ...

epub |eng | 2023-11-08 | Author:Brian Walker [Walker, Brian]

Dai Li lounged in the back seat of his opulent car, meticulously leafing through a stack of confidential reports. The convoy inched its way through the metropolis, the thronged streets ...

epub |eng | 2016-04-05 | Author:Randel, Weina Dai [Randel, Weina Dai]

epub |eng | 2017-02-02 | Author:McIntyre, Lewis F.

CHAPTER 50: A PLAN FOR CLEMENCY The emperor returned from his southern tour with a great deal more fanfare than on his departure, arriving at Luoyang’s south wall by the ...

epub |eng | 2022-06-07 | Author:Harilela, M. J.

After the party Anita, after everyone had left, went up to her bedroom to retire for the night. She changed to her nightdress and laid in bed thinking of the ...

epub |eng | 2023-06-04 | Author:Penelope Dow [Dow, Penelope]

Chapter 11 A New Enterprise 1805 The smell of incense filled the cramped captain’s cabin of the Red Dragon. Shi Yang looked over the ledgers, trying to ignore the cannon ...

epub |ita | 2023-10-09 | Author:Wang Hongjia [Hongjia, Wang]

epub |eng | 2014-02-25 | Author:Robert Ryan [Ryan, Robert]

Eighteen BOND STREET’S REAL NAME was Shuncheng Jie, and it was a dusty strip of shophouses with pull-down fronts, onto which the articles for sale were spread. Sometimes it was ...

epub |eng | 2024-02-07 | Author:Edward Y. C. Lee

13 In mid-February, there came a thaw, and the roadways slickened with slush. Pedestrians sank mid-calf into potholes of icy water. The sun poked its face from behind the clouds, ...

azw3 |eng | 2019-11-02 | Author:Feng Jicai

22 Golden Fingers Golden Fingers was a very capable man, but he was jealous and small-minded and couldn’t bear anyone else being more successful. If you did better than him, ...