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Peony (or The Bondmaid) is set in the 1850s in the city of Kaifeng, in the province of Henan, which was historically a center for Chinese Jews. The novel follows Peony, a Chinese bondmaid of the prominent Jewish family of Ezra ben Israel's, and shows through her eyes how the Jewish community was regarded in Kaifeng at a time when most of the Jews had come to think of themselves as Chinese.
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Peony, Pearl S. Buck
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- Released
- 1948
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- Title
- Peony
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Pearl S. Buck
- Publisher
- Pocket Books
- Released
- 1948
- Format
- Paperback
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Classics, Asia, China
- Original title
- Peony
- Rating
- 3.95 out of 5
- Description
- Peony (or The Bondmaid) is set in the 1850s in the city of Kaifeng, in the province of Henan, which was historically a center for Chinese Jews. The novel follows Peony, a Chinese bondmaid of the prominent Jewish family of Ezra ben Israel's, and shows through her eyes how the Jewish community was regarded in Kaifeng at a time when most of the Jews had come to think of themselves as Chinese.