Description: Vintage 1914 MY LADY OF THE CHINESE COURTYARD First Edition by ELIZABETH COOPER Nearly 110 years old, this book is in very good condition for its age. 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. 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.
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Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: New York
Language: Chinese
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Seventh Printing
Author: Elizabeth Cooper
Publisher: Frederick A. Stokes Company
Topic: Asian
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Subject: Chinese Women
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1914
