My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard
Author: first_name: Elizabeth
last_name: Cooper
Language: English

"I hope that this book, based on letters shown me many years after they were written, will give a faint idea of the life of a Chinese lady.  The story is told in two series of letters conceived to be written by Kwei-li, the wife of a very high Chinese official, [the first series were written] to her husband when he accompanied his master, Prince Chung, on his trip around the world."  The second series of letters were written 25 years later to Kwei-li's mother-in-law as China faces revolution and