Hong Ying

China, 1907. Sixteen-year-old orphan Cassia is sold by her aunt to a brothel. There she works as a lowly maid until a powerful and dangerous client plucks her from obscurity.

"The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River is the largest construction project in the history of China, and opens in June 2004. These famous areas of natural beauty will have their height cut to one third by the Reservoir, which will submerge the whole area, the cradle of Chinese civilization for three millenia. Liu's husband, Li Lusheng, is Director of the Dam project, and is being unfaithful. Liu goes to visit him and on finding out about his infidelity flees in disgust to her old home, Liang, where protestors against the Dam persuade her to join them. There she is told the story of the crucifixion of Red Lotus, a prostitute, and a Buddhist priest, whose vilification is described in graphic detail. The book takes on the subjects of reincarnation and a spiritual quest in the face of economic development and provides an insight into the intricate details of Chinese life."--Jacket.

The impact of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown on Chinese intellectuals through the eyes of Lin Ying, a poetess. She tries to make up for the lack of political freedom with a life of total sexual liberation, but there too the government is watching.

Yi ge xiang xia nü hai, fen bie cheng wei shang hai tan san dai hei bang lao da de qing ren, zui hou ta cheng le jun lin shi li yang chang de mu hou " shang hai wang ", zhe shi you li shi gen ju de chuan qi jing li.