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      The Chinese Emperor

      by Jean Levi
      Published
      Oct 1987
      Main Genre
      Historical Romance Hist. Romance
      Pages
      341
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      In third century B.C. Ch'in, as that alien world is depicted in this extraordinary feat of scholarship and imaginative representation, modes of behavior were exotic, at least from a modern vantage point. A malicious courtier induces the susceptible prince to decapitate a loyal official, then throws his body to the fishes, leaving his eyes for the birds to peck.
      Another "honest subject of the state" is made mincemeat of, pickled and sold in the marketplace. A knight-errant admires the hands of a ravishing lutist and is presented with them, exquisitely boxed.
      In the afterword, Levi insists that this is neither a work of history nor a historical novel, as it portrays no "characters" in any dramatic or conventional sense. It is a really a "political fable" based on historical documents concerning the turbulent, war-torn period out of which the First Empire emerged.

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      Romance

      Subgenres

      Historical Romance

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      Feb 1989 Vintage ISBN13 9780394759968 ISBN10 0394759966
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      First Edition Oct 1987 Harcourt ISBN13 9780151176496 ISBN10 0151176493
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