1. Manchu
Francis Arrowsmith is an English orphan raised by exiled Jesuits and trained in the use of European artillery. Seeking fortune and a war in which to sell his skills, he joins a Portuguese expedition sent from Macau to support the failing Ming dynasty against the advancing…
2. Mandarin
In treaty-port Shanghai, the Jewish silk merchant Saul Haleevie tries to save his Chinese partner Aisek Lee from a false accusation connected with his mother’s suicide. Their business and families have survived cultural suspicion and commercial rivalry, but the Qing penal system turns private tragedy into…
3. Dynasty
Dynasty follows the Sekloongs, a wealthy Eurasian trading family in Hong Kong, from the opening of the twentieth century into the 1970s. The empire founded by Sir Jonathan Sekloong passes to descendants divided by marriage, adultery, commercial ambition and competing ideas of national loyalty. Mary Osgood’s…