White Jade

[light shelfwear to bottom edge, a bit of foxing/spotting to top of text block; jacket lightly soiled, tiny tears at upper spine extremities]. Historical novel of ancient China, "the story of a Chinese Helen of Troy who, by her taste and intelligence, raised the T'ang period to its highest level, and, by her wantonness, quenched it in a sea of blood." The lady in question was Yang Kuei-fei, mistress of the Emperor Ming, who was put to death at age 37 on his orders (long story, look it up). Known as one of "the Four Beauties of ancient China," her story has been the subject of many works of literature, opera, theatre, film and television; the version most likely to be familar to Western audiences was the 1955 Japanese film PRINCESS YANG KWEI FEI, directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. This was the second novel by this author who published her most famous work, the Amazon-Lesbian classic "The Green Scamander," a few years later.

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Publisher: Eric Partridge Ltd. at the Scholartis Press / Houghton Mifflin Company

Year: 1930

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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