num_pages: 471
description: In the bestselling tradition of Memoirs of a Geisha a riveting saga of early twentieth-century China where a mother and a daughter fight to realize their destinies in a world where women could still be bought and sold. Lotus Feet. He would give his daughter the dainty feet of a courtesan. This would enhance her beauty and her price making her future shine like a new coin. He smiled to himself pouring fresh tea. And it would stop her from running awayWhen the young concubine of an old farmer in rural China gives birth to a daughter called Li-Xia or Beautiful One the child seems destined to become a concubine herself. Li refuses to submit to her fate outwitting her fathers orders to bind her feet and escaping the silk farm with an English sea captain. Li takes her first steps toward fulfilling her mothers dreams of becoming a scholar  but her final triumph must be left to her daughter Su Sing Little Star in a journey that will take her from remote mountain refuges to the perils of Hong Kong on the eve of World War II.
language: English
title: The Concubine's Daughter
publisher: St. Martin's Griffin