Release Date for "The Green Phoenix" - September 1, 2017
Hong Kong-based publisher Earnshaw Books will be releasing my historical epic titled The Green Phoenix on September 1, 2017.
For a peek of the book cover image (which I absolutely love!), please go to my profile photo page:
https://www.goodreads.com/photo/autho...
Here are the book description and blurbs by Paul French and Susan Blumberg-Kason that appear on the back cover of the book:
With the fate of East Asia hanging in the balance, one Mongolian woman manipulates her lovers, sons and grandsons through war and upheaval to create an empire that lasted for 250 years.
The Green Phoenix tells the story of the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, born a Mongolian princess who became a consort in the Manchu court and then the Qing Dynasty’s first matriarch. She lived through harrowing threats, endless political crises, personal heartaches and painful losses to lead a shaky Empire out of a dead end. The story is set against a turbulent canvas as the Chinese Ming Dynasty is replaced by the Qing. Xiaozhuang guides her husband, her lover, her son and her grandson - all emperors and supreme leaders of the Qing Empire - to success against the odds.
“So much of imperial Chinese history is an enigma; a world we, as outsiders, are shut out off. Alice Poon’s novelised life of the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang fictionally pulls back the curtain on Manchu court life and lets us step into a forbidden world.”
- Paul French, author of Midnight in Peking
“Alice Poon has written a masterpiece of Chinese history little known in the West. It's a story of love, betrayal and loyalty, and shows how one woman inspired the reunification of China. For so long the West has fixated on the end of the Qing dynasty, but as Poon beautifully recreates in her book, the real heroine of the Qing is the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang. Never before has this story been told in English, and it's arguably the most important historical novel of early Qing Dynasty China.”
- Susan Blumberg-Kason, author of Good Chinese Wife: A Love Affair with China Gone Wrong
For a peek of the book cover image (which I absolutely love!), please go to my profile photo page:
https://www.goodreads.com/photo/autho...
Here are the book description and blurbs by Paul French and Susan Blumberg-Kason that appear on the back cover of the book:
With the fate of East Asia hanging in the balance, one Mongolian woman manipulates her lovers, sons and grandsons through war and upheaval to create an empire that lasted for 250 years.
The Green Phoenix tells the story of the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, born a Mongolian princess who became a consort in the Manchu court and then the Qing Dynasty’s first matriarch. She lived through harrowing threats, endless political crises, personal heartaches and painful losses to lead a shaky Empire out of a dead end. The story is set against a turbulent canvas as the Chinese Ming Dynasty is replaced by the Qing. Xiaozhuang guides her husband, her lover, her son and her grandson - all emperors and supreme leaders of the Qing Empire - to success against the odds.
“So much of imperial Chinese history is an enigma; a world we, as outsiders, are shut out off. Alice Poon’s novelised life of the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang fictionally pulls back the curtain on Manchu court life and lets us step into a forbidden world.”
- Paul French, author of Midnight in Peking
“Alice Poon has written a masterpiece of Chinese history little known in the West. It's a story of love, betrayal and loyalty, and shows how one woman inspired the reunification of China. For so long the West has fixated on the end of the Qing dynasty, but as Poon beautifully recreates in her book, the real heroine of the Qing is the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang. Never before has this story been told in English, and it's arguably the most important historical novel of early Qing Dynasty China.”
- Susan Blumberg-Kason, author of Good Chinese Wife: A Love Affair with China Gone Wrong
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Jun 23, 2017 01:21PM
I can't wait for The Green Phoenix to be published - the cover is absolutely stunning! The Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, is legendary, and I look forward to reading about her incredible life story as imagined by the talented Alice Poon.
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Thank you so much Trish! Xiaozhuang is my heroine :)
I am sure she will be everyone's new heroine after your book!
