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Daiyu Buries Flowers, a painting dated 1950. Lin Daiyu (also spelled Lin Tai-yu, Chinese: 林黛玉; pinyin: Lín Dàiyù, rendered Black Jade in Chi-chen Wang's translation) is one of the principal characters of Cao Xueqin's classic 18th-century Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber. [1]
Kylie Chan is an Australian author, best known for The Dark Heavens trilogy, set in modern-day Hong Kong. [1] [2] The first novel in the trilogy, White Tiger, was published in July 2006, followed by Red Phoenix in January 2007.
Lin Daiyu (林黛玉; Lín Dàiyù; Lin Tai-yu; 'Blue-black Jade') Jia Baoyu's younger first cousin and his true love. She is the daughter of Lin Ruhai (林如海), an official in the lucrative Yangzhou salt commission, and Lady Jia Min (賈敏), Baoyu's paternal aunt. She is an icon of spirituality and intelligence: beautiful, sentimental ...
Legend of the Jade Phoenix #1. Book one of The Jade Phoenix Trilogy. Cadet Aidan of Clan Jade Falcon dreams of one day being a Warrior and contributing his genetic material to his Clan's breeding program. But first he has to make it out of the sibko, not an easy task when he has to compete against his fellow cadets and endure the scorn of ...
Dragon Sword and Wind Child (ISBN 0-374-30466-1) is the first book of award-winning [citation needed] fantasy writer Noriko Ogiwara.The book, originally written in Japanese in 1988 as: Sorairo Magatama (空色勾玉 Sky-Colored Jade; see magatama), won her several awards for children's literature and was later translated into English by Cathy Hirano in 1993 as Dragon Sword and Wind Child.
River jade collection was concentrated in the Yarkand, the White Jade and Black Jade Rivers. From the Kingdom of Khotan , on the southern leg of the Silk Road , yearly tribute payments consisting of the most precious white jade were made to the Chinese Imperial court and there transformed into objets d'art by skilled artisans as jade was ...
Throne of Jade is the second novel in the Temeraire alternate history/fantasy series written by American author Naomi Novik. [2] It was published by Del Rey first in the United States on April 25, 2006, and was published in the United Kingdom in August 2007 by Voyager .
A nostalgic buzz around the novel re-emerged on social media in 2017, and literary agent Rachel Mann contacted the author after her assistant, a young Black woman, brought it to her attention. [4] In October 2021, it was published in print for the first time, as Keisha the Sket, by Stormzy's Penguin Random House imprint, #Merky Books.