My Splendid Concubine

The Taiping Rebellion. The Opium Wars. How one Westerner changed China’s future by falling in love. At the height of the Qing Dynasty, one foreigner and his native concubine shifted the fate of an empire. Rich detail and deft prose, author Lloyd Lofthouse paints a captivating picture of a man thrust onto the world stage as a result of his passions.