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Peking 1914. Eight45year45old Eastern Jewel peers from behind ascreen as her father Prince Su makes love to a servant girl. Caught spying byher thirteenth sister Eastern Jewel39s sexual curiosity sees her banishedto live with distant relatives in Tokyo then forced into a passionlessmarriage in freezing Mongolia. Increasingly isolated at night she is plaguedby disturbing fantasies and unsettling dreams. But she refuses to be pinneddown by anyone 45 least of all a man 45 and in the dazzling city ofShanghai she puts her thrill45seeking nature to work spying for theJapanese spurning everything she once held dear... Based on the real45life story of Yoshiko Kawashima Chinese princessturned ruthless Japanese spy The Private Papers of Eastern Jewel is anintoxicating tale of sexual manipulation and self45discovery that spansthree countries and a world war. «
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