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NATIONAL BESTSELLER A teenage girl living in 1960s China becomes Mao Zedong’s protégée and lover—and a heroine of the Cultural Revolution—in this “masterful” (The Washington Post) novel. “A new classic about China’s Cultural Revolution . . . Think Succession, but add...

平息“三藩”之乱之后，康熙四处物色治河能臣，亲赴汴梁，视察黄河，任用能臣疏浚漕运，终使黄河变清；任用良将，操练水军，德威并用，东收台湾；开博学鸿儒科，选拔良臣，缓和民族矛盾；南巡金陵，北巡盛京，完成统一中华大业…… 平息「三藩」之亂之後，康熙四處物色治河能臣，親赴汴梁，視察黃河，任用能臣疏浚漕運，終使黃河變清；任用良將，操練水軍，德威並用，東收台灣；開博學鴻儒科，選拔良臣，緩和民族矛盾；南巡金陵，北巡盛京，完成統一中華大業……

This rich and nuanced portrait of eighteenth-century China follows a Chinese girl's path to enlightenment. At the midpoint of the Manchus' long sway over the largest empire in China's history, a young girl stands reluctantly on the brink of womanhood. Lotus, the Empress Dowager's servant, decides to follow a spiritual path through the Forbidden City. She travels down routes of erotic fancy in search of a place called Mandala, where life's troubles are left behind.