Book description
A breathless adventure based on the real life story of Yoshiko
Kawashima, Chinese princess turned Japanese spy Peking, 1914.
Eight-year-old Eastern Jewel peers from behind a screen as her father,
Prince Su makes love to a servant girl. Caught spying by her thirteenth
sister, Eastern Jewel s sexual curiosity sees her banished to live with
distant relatives in Tokyo, then forced into a passionless marriage in
freezing Mongolia. Increasingly isolated, at night she is plagued by
disturbing fantasies and unsettling dreams. But she refuses to be pinned
down by anyone least of all a man and in the dazzling city of Shanghai
she puts her thrill-seeking nature to work spying for the Japanese,
spurning everything she once held dear & Based on the real-life
story of Yoshiko Kawashima, Chinese princess turned ruthless Japanese
spy, The Private Papers of Eastern Jewel is an intoxicating tale of
sexual manipulation and self-discovery that spans three countries and a
world war. A breathless adventure based on the real life story of
Yoshiko Kawashima, Chinese princess turned Japanese spy Peking, 1914.
Eight-year-old Eastern Jewel peers from behind a screen as her father,
Prince Su makes love to a servant girl. Caught spying by her thirteenth
sister, Eastern Jewel s sexual curiosity sees her banished to live with
distant relatives in Tokyo, then forced into a passionless marriage in
freezing Mongolia. Increasingly isolated, at night she is plagued by
disturbing fantasies and unsettling dreams. But she refuses to be pinned
down by anyone least of all a man and in the dazzling city of Shanghai
she puts her thrill-seeking nature to work spying for the Japanese,
spurning everything she once held dear & Based on the real-life
story of Yoshiko Kawashima, Chinese princess turned ruthless Japanese
spy, The Private Papers of Eastern Jewel is an intoxicating tale of
sexual manipulation and self-discovery that spans three countries and a
world war.
