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Description
Mandarin is a historical novel by Robert Elegant, published by Simon & Schuster in 1983. It is set in China during the Taiping Rebellion of the 1860s–70s, and is the third book in his bestselling "Imperial China Trilogy," following Dynasty (1977) and Manchu (1980). It blends two tales: one of business and corruption in metropolitan Shanghai and another of schemes and politics of an imperial concubine.
Understanding the author is key to understanding the book's significance. Elegant was an American-British journalist who spent many years in Asia, covering both the Korean and Vietnam Wars and going on to earn a Masters degree in Far Eastern studies and journalism. He was not a casual observer so much as one of the most credentialed and invested Western China experts of his era writing popular fiction.
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