num_pages: 352
description: Peony (or The Bondmaid) is set in the 1850s in the city of Kaifeng, in the province of Henan, which was historically a center for Chinese Jews. The novel follows Peony, a Chinese bondmaid of the prominent Jewish family of Ezra ben Israel's, and shows through her eyes how the Jewish community was regarded in Kaifeng at a time when most of the Jews had come to think of themselves as Chinese.
language: English
title: Peony
titlecomplete: Peony
genres: Asia, Historical Fiction, Historical, Novels, Asian Literature, Literature, Classics, China, Romance, Fiction
ratings_count: 7364
places: Kaifeng, China
publisher: Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries