# Red Lotus

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- Book: [Red Lotus](https://www.bookquiver.com/pai-kit-fai/red-lotus) ([Red Lotus.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/pai-kit-fai/red-lotus.md))
- Authors: [Pai Kit Fai](https://www.bookquiver.com/pai-kit-fai)
- Publisher: Sphere
- ISBN: 978-07-5153-898-4
- Published: 2010-03-22
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Yip Mann, an elderly spice farmer, should have known better than to purchase a fifteen-year-old cherry-girl as his concubine, especially one beautiful enough to be seen as Ch'ien Gum - comparable to a thousand pieces of gold. But surely he deserves such a plaything to give him the last of his sons. To Yip Mann's dismay, the wilful concubine dies bearing him a worthless girl-child. After her death he must make use of the girl as best he can: by binding her feet in the forbidden practice of the Golden Lotus, he can sell her for a higher price. But the daughter he names Li-Xia - Beautiful One - has the fighting spirit of her rebellious mother, escaping the crippling bandages: she knows her feet will be her freedom. And when they lead her into the path of a mysterious 'foreign devil', Li-Xia takes the first steps on a new and perilous journey . . .