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Emperor! : A Romance of Ancient China by Lanny Fields (2007, Perfect)

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Title: Emperor! : A Romance Of Ancient China. Number of Pages: 364. Language: English. Author: Fields, Lanny (Author). Weight: 1.17 lbs. Publication Date: 2007-07-26. Publisher: iUniverse.

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PublisheriUniverse, Incorporated

ISBN-100595408524

ISBN-139780595408528

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Book TitleEmperor! : a Romance of Ancient China

Number of Pages364 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicFamily Life, Romance / Historical / General, Historical

Publication Year2007

GenreFiction

AuthorLanny Fields

FormatPerfect

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Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight18.9 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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SynopsisChina was a glorious and a terrible place to live during the time of the Emperor. 221 BC -Ten years of warfare have brought a unified Chinese land. Then Emperor Ying Jeng, Imperial China's creator, disarms the people and commissions a road system uniting key parts of the empire. Weights, measures, laws, monies, and written characters are standardized in a system that will endure for 2000 years. Jeng befriends Marcus Lucius Scipio, a Roman traveler, who twice saves the Emperor's life. Marcus meets and falls in love with Ming Tien, a Chinese scholar and former nun. Ming becomes pregnant and goes off to have her baby without telling Marcus, but the lie haunts their relationship. When a drunken Emperor Jeng accosts Ming, she chooses suicide. Marcus, accused and held for Ming's murder, is later released to claim his daughter on order from the Emperor. But what will the future hold for this Roman and his Chinese daughter? Peasants, local officials, aristocrats, and organized crime syndicate members are caught up in the drama of the empire's forging, vividly depicted through the eyes of a historian intent on telling the history of the first Emperor of China in Emperor : A Romance of Ancient China., China was a glorious and a terrible place to live during the time of the Emperor. It's 221 BC, and ten years of brutal warfare have brought a unified Chinese land. Emperor Ying Jeng, Imperial China's creator, disarms the people and commissions a road system to unite key areas of the empire. Weights, measures, laws, monies, and written characters are standardized in a system that will endure for 2000 years. Jeng also befriends Marcus Lucius Scipio, a Roman traveler who saves the Emperor's life on more than one occasion. Eight years later, Marcus meets and soon falls in love with Ming Tien, a Chinese scholar and former nun. Ming returns his love, but she refuses to become a man's property through marriage-even after she finds out that she's carrying Marcus's child. She chooses not to tell him about the baby, and the lie haunts their relationship to its demise. A short time after their daughter's birth and subsequent adoption, Marcus and Ming can't help but renew their passionate affair. But when a drunken Emperor Jeng accosts Ming, her reaction has lasting consequences for all. Peasants, local officials, aristocrats, and an organized crime syndicate are all caught up in this romantic drama of the empire's forging, vividly depicted through the eyes of a historian intent on documenting the life and times of the first Emperor of China.