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The Book and the Sword (the ^Amartial Arts Novels of Louis Cha)
by Jin Yong
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During the reign of the Qianlong Emperor, Chen Jialuo returns from Xinjiang to lead the Red Flower Society, a brotherhood committed to overthrowing the Manchu Qing and restoring Han rule. Its chiefs rescue captured comrades, confront imperial agents and discover a secret that could undermine the emperor’s legitimacy: the claim that Qianlong was born to the Han Chinese Chen family of Haining and exchanged as an infant.
The struggle moves between the imperial heartland and Central Asia, where Chen becomes involved with the Muslim sisters Huo Qingtong and Princess Fragrance. Secret-society politics, romance and military resistance converge as the rebels attempt to turn Qianlong’s supposed ancestry into a promise of political change. The novel uses a popular dynastic legend and the figure remembered as the Fragrant Concubine to examine identity, betrayal and the limits of patriotic conspiracy.
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