Title: The red chamber
Description: When the orphaned Daiyu leaves her home in the provinces to seek shelter with her cousins in Beijing, she is drawn into a world of opulent splendor presided over by the ruthless, scheming Xifeng and the prim, repressed Baochai. As she learns the secrets behind their glittering facades, she is tangled in a web of intrigue reaching all the way to the Emperor's Palace, and finds herself no longer able to distinguish friend from foe.
Subjects: Women, Female friendship, Fiction, History, Women China History 18th century Fiction, Beijing (China) History 18th century Fiction, Fiction, historical, Beijing (china), fiction, Fiction, women, China, fiction, Friendship, fiction, Fiction, historical, general
Places: China, Beijing (China)
Time periods: 18th century