Peach Blossom Paradise
by Canaan Morse (translator) & Ge Fei
🏆 Shortlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Translated Literature
Peach Blossom by Chinese novelist Ge Fei (real name: Liu Yong) is set at the time of China’s Hundred Days’ Reform in 1898 when it looked, briefly, as if China’s Qing dynasty would embrace reform. The main protagonist is Xiumi, the daughter of a wealthy landowner and former government official.
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“Peach Blossom Paradise, a brand new historical novel with fanciful elements by Ge Fei that is set close to 1900 as well.” Read more...
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Historian
