Title: Red Lotus
Description: When a young concubine gives birth to a daughter, Li-Xia, the child is destined to also become a concubine. Li refuses, outwitting her father's orders to bind her feet and escaping the silk farm. Li takes her first steps toward fulfilling her mother's dreams of being a scholar-but her final triumph must be left to her daughter, Su Sing.
Subjects: China, fiction, Slaves, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, historical, Women, Fiction, Social conditions, Social life and customs