Too Hot To Publish
She need not worry. A few years ago, a Shanghai publisher rejected “Red Azalea” as “too controversial,” and this work probably won’t be published in China either. Min, now back in Shanghai with her 8-year-old American daughter, is delving once again into controversial history. She’s researching a book about the empress dowager, who was blamed for letting foreign powers grab pieces of China in the late 19th century–another woman Min thinks is unjustly maligned....