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Books by 莫草
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The Capital’s Newspaper Girl 京城报娘
Xue Hengniang, an eighteen-year-old from the capital, was pretty and capable. By day, she ran a tiny laundry shop. In secret, she published a gossip sheet, working tirelessly to earn a modest living. She had a secret crush on the handsome and distinguished top scholar at the Imperial Academy, carefully looked after her gravely ill mother, and planned for her future and retirement. She thought her life would carry on in peace and quiet, until one day, a woman in mourning appeared at the gates of
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Baoyu and Daiyu: Return to the Grand View Garden 宝黛之重返大观园
Five years ago, Daiyu left just as Baoyu was getting married. Five years later, Daiyu returned just as Baoyu was taking a concubine. Baoyu, are you serious? Reading guide: 1. Yuanchun gains status through her son and becomes empress dowager, giving the Jia family a new lease on life. Baoyu and Baochai marry as in the Cheng-Gao version. 1. This is not a wish-fulfillment story. The main plot follows Baoyu, Daiyu, and Wang Xifeng working together to protect the women of the Red Chamber as troubled
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Becoming a Litigator in Ancient Times 在古代当讼师
The Tang family, one of the wealthiest in Shu, has only one daughter: Tang Xiaotang, twenty years old and breathtakingly beautiful. With both her parents dead, she commands a dowry worth a million. The news shakes the land, and suitors come from every direction. This is something Cui Pingyuan, the celebrated gentleman known throughout the realm, simply cannot understand: Tang Xiaotang has no regard for a woman's proper conduct. She causes trouble and takes on lawsuits every day, from the south
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A Village Women's Federation Director in the 1950s 在五十年代当村妇联主任
In May 1950, the newly established People's Republic of China enacted the Marriage Law. When news reached Xia Village in Hua County (a fictional place), the villagers who had lived on this land for generations looked utterly bewildered. What? Equality between men and women? The men leapt to their feet in outrage: A wife is like a horse you buy. I can order her around and beat her as I please! The women nodded in agreement: A cat should catch mice, and a man should be the one in charge. Freedo
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A Diplomat in Ancient Times 在古代当外交官
Cao Anruo, the future crown princess of the Great Zhou Dynasty, had been raised in the palace since childhood. Beautiful and dashing, clever and learned, she was high-born and deeply cherished. In 1019, the fourteenth year of Emperor Zhou Yuande's reign, when Anruo was sixteen, the Empress Dowager ordered her to return to the Marquis of Guiyi's residence in Shazhou, in preparation for the Crown Prince to formally welcome her as his bride. As rulers of the world's greatest empire and its revered
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