Description: Tipped-in coloured frontispiece illustration by Norman H, Harvey and black & white illustrations throughout the book is in very good condition with previous owners name within. Eighteen-year-old Kwei-li became My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard when she married. Before the wedding she had not known her husband, but she fell deeply in love with him at first sight. When he is ordered to accompany Prince Chung on his travels abroad, he asks her to write him every day and she happily complies with his wish that she understands as a command. In her letters Kwei-li reports what is going on in the courtyard of home that she shares with his mother and siblings often allowing the love and longing for her husband to seep into her words. Originally published in 1914 this is a sequel to Love Letters of a Chinese Lady written by Elizabeth Cooper. These letters "come out of the confused revolutionary atmosphere of the new China. Kwei-li's patriotism and hatred of the (foreign) grows out of the fact that, as wife of the governor of one of the chief provinces, she had been from the beginning en rapport with the intrigues, the gossip, and the rumours of a revolution which, for intricacy of plot and hidden motive, is incomparable with any previous national chance on record." From Publisher's description.
Price: 15 USD
Location: Sonoma, California
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Seller
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: New York
Signed: No
Publisher: Frederick A. Stokes
Subject: History
Modified Item: No
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1914
Language: English
Illustrator: Photographs
Special Attributes: Illustrated
31 duotone illustrations from photographs by Donald Mennie: Comparison of Chinese society before & after the Boxer Rebellion
Author: Elizabeth Cooper
Region: North America
Personalized: Yes
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: China
