Daqing Weaving

Author: Feng Jingzhi
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Publish Date: 2003-02-01
Features: The Imperial Silk Weavers is a new work by author Feng Jingzhi, following his highly acclaimed novels The Deceiver and The Imperial Bodyguards. It is a complex plot-rich, full of historical anecdotes, featuring numerous characters, detailed events, and profound cultural background. The novel weaves the experiences of four generations of the Cao family, the authors of Dream of the Red Chamber, with the service and sacrifice of the Jiangning Silk Weavers, who served the imperial family. It depicts the rise and fall, the favor and humiliation of the Cao family. At the same time, the novel unfolds the extraordinary entanglements between the imperial princes and grandsons of the Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong reigns and the men and women of the Cao family through an unpredictable storyline.