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The Emperor’s Bones
Book 2 in the China Trilogy series.
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In the early 1920s, Catherine Cabot arrives in China after nursing on the Eastern Front and witnessing the Russian Revolution. She is searching for her missing father, while her Oxford friend Yu Fu-kuei has entered the country as a revolutionary and Comintern agent. Their friendship, political commitments and competing loyalties become entangled with a love triangle and with men who intend to use Catherine to settle old scores.
The novel moves through treaty-port Tianjin and Shanghai, the May Thirtieth Movement, the First United Front, the Northern Expedition and the Shanghai Massacre of 1927, ending with the assassination of Zhang Zuolin. Warlords, Nationalists, Communists, Soviet advisers and Japanese agents compete for power as private quests become inseparable from national revolution. The second China Trilogy volume presents the 1920s as a period of idealism, espionage, betrayal and escalating civil war.
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