The concubine of Shanghai
By: by Hong Ying
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780241950678
Subjects: Mistresses; Fiction; Triads (Organized crime)
Work titles: Shanghai Wang
Description: China, 1907. Sixteen-year-old orphan Cassia is sold by her aunt to a brothel. There she works as a lowly maid until a powerful and dangerous client plucks her from obscurity.
Notes: Translated from the Chinese.