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The Moon in the Palace

Need a Good Summer Read? Try These 28 Books Featured on the Blog

July 13, 2017August 16, 2018 Jocelyn Eikenburg 5 Comments A Bollywood Affair, A Field Guide to Happiness, Alex Tizon, Atom Yang, Big Little Man, Celeste Ng, Dana Sachs, Empire of Glass, Everything I Never Told You, Ferry Tale, Good Chinese Wife, Grace Buchele Mineta, Here Comes the Sun: A Journey to Adoption in 8 Chakras, How Does One Dress to Buy Dragonfruit, Huan Hsu, Janet Brown, Kaitlin Solimine, Kelli Estes, Leza Lowitz, Linda Leaming, Love Me Anyway, My Japanese Husband (Still) Thinks I'm Crazy, My Japanese Husband Thinks I'm Crazy, Nicki Chen, Parsley & Coriander: Life in China with Italian flavor, Pearl River Drama: Dating in China, Quincy Carroll, Ray Hecht, Red Envelope, Shannon Young, Sonali Dev, South China Morning Blues, Susan Blumberg-Kason, Susan Chan, The Empress of Bright Moon, The Girl Who Wrote in Silk, The Good Shufu, The Moon in the Palace, The Porcelain Thief, The Reluctant Brides of Lily Court Lane, The Secret of The Nightingale Palace, There's Something I Want to Tell You: True Stories of Mixed Dating in Japan, Tiffany Hawk, Tiger Tail Soup, Tone Deaf in Bangkok, Tracy Slater, Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside, Weina Dai Randel, Year of Fire Dragons, Yuta Aoki

Whether you’re chilling out on the beach or cooling down indoors, here’s my list of recommended summer reads I’ve featured here on the blog

Guest Post: On Sex Education in China’s Tang Dynasty Era

April 1, 2016March 31, 2016 Jocelyn Eikenburg 7 Comments China, Dreams of Spring, Empress Wu, sex in China, Tang Dynasty, The Empress of Bright Moon, The Moon in the Palace, Weina Dai Randel, Wu Zetian

Ancient Chinese people were not shy or reserved at all, they were very passionate and open about sex. To have sex was a beautiful thing.

The Moon in the Palace by Weina Dai Randel

“The Moon in the Palace” by Weina Dai Randel – An Interview

March 4, 2016March 4, 2016 Jocelyn Eikenburg 17 Comments China, Empress Wu, historical fiction, Tang Dynasty, The Moon in the Palace, Weina Dai Randel, Wu Zetian

“The Moon in the Palace” by Weina Dai Randel, about the rise of China’s young Empress Wu, truly reads like a Tang Dynasty-era Cinderella story.

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My essay "Red Couplets" is also included in the 2013 China expat travel anthology Unsavory Elements.

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