Title: Uncut jade
Description: A young girl is orphaned when her christian missionary family is killed by intolerant chinese and sold to a family as slave with her brother. She soon comes of age and makes a life for herself the only way she can, and becomes the one of the first successful women of British ruled Hong Kong.
Subjects: british hong kong, china, successful woman, Fiction, general
Places: Great Britain, China, France
Time periods: 1800