The Imperial China Trilogy
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The Imperial China Trilogy

Manchu, Mandarin, and Dynasty

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eBook - ePub

The Imperial China Trilogy

Manchu, Mandarin, and Dynasty

About this book

The complete New York Times–bestselling trilogy of historical fiction set in China, from an award-winning novelist and Pulitzer Prize finalist in journalism.
 
Spanning over three centuries of Chinese history, New York Times–bestselling and Edgar Award–winning author Robert Elegant takes readers from the opulent courts and complex intrigue of the emperors to the bloody battlefields, and vividly recreates a richly detailed world where the quest for power and pleasure drives men and women to extremes of both loyalty and betrayal. In this special single-volume edition, the novels are presented in chronological historical order.
 
Manchu: In this New York Times bestseller, soldier of fortune Francis Arrowsmith joins a Portuguese expedition to aid the decadent and corrupt Ming dynasty in its fight against the Manchu invaders. He embarks on an epic adventure that will merge his destiny with the fate of China itself.
 
"Does for seventeenth-century China what James Clavell's Shogun did for sixteenth-century Japan." — The Christian Science Monitor
 
Mandarin: In nineteenth-century China, imperial rule is crumbling as the Opium Wars and Taiping Rebellion rage. On the streets of Shanghai, a Jewish silk merchant tries to save his Chinese partner from a false accusation and corrupt penal system, while in the imperial palace the "Virtuous Concubine" Yehenala contrives to bear the opium-eating, syphilitic emperor's only son, thus laying the foundation for her elevation to the pinnacle of power in China as the formidable empress dowager.
 
"Exciting, historically accurate, a good read." — The New York Times
 
Dynasty: A New York Times bestseller, this epic of love and adultery, money and power, set amid the revolutionary turbulence of twentieth-century China, from the fall of the last emperor to the rise of Mao Tse-tung, follows the Sekloong dynasty of Hong Kong, a trading empire founded by Sir Jonathan, the illegitimate offspring of an Irish adventurer and his Chinese mistress, in all its triumphs, tragedies, betrayals, and bloodshed.
 
"An action-packed novel . . . conjured up with perception and vigor." — The New York Times Book Review
 

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Information

Publisher
Open Road Media
Year
2018
eBook ISBN
9781504053747
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literature General
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. MANCHU
  5. The Artillery Of Heaven: June 1624 – February 1632
  6. The Wrath of Heaven: July 1632 – June 1644
  7. The Mandate Op Heaven: January 1645 – September 1652
  8. MANDARIN
  9. Book I April 11, 1854–October 21, 1855: The Settlement
  10. Book II April 1, 1856–November 7, 1856: The Heavenly Kingdom
  11. Book III August 24, 1860–September 1, 1864: The Collapse
  12. Book IV March 7, 1872–January 14, 1875: The Restoration
  13. DYNASTY
  14. Part I Mary: May 28, 1900–December 26, 1900
  15. Part II Mary and Charles: February 4, 1905–November 16, 1906
  16. Part III Mary and Harry: November 13, 1908–September 11, 1909
  17. Part IV Mary and Jonathan: December 6, 1911–June 18, 1916
  18. Part V Thomas and James: March 2, 1924–December 15, 1927
  19. Part VI James and Harry: July 7, 1937–December 9, 1944
  20. Part VII The Sekloongs and the Lao Pai-Hsing: November 28, 1950–February 22, 1959
  21. Part VIII Albert and the Red Guards: October 24, 1965–September 26, 1967
  22. Postlude: June 28, 1970
  23. About the Author
  24. Copyright Page