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The Palindrome Brocade
Su Hui of the Jin dynasty wove a poem into brocade that can be read in every direction. When her brocade is cut in two, centuries later, the halves pass to two young people who do not know each other. The Palindrome Brocade follows the halves and their owners through intrigue, disguise and war until the brocade, and the couple, are joined. This is a complete new English translation, with names in modern pinyin and the text rendered as plain, readable English prose. Like the best scholar-and-beauty novels it moves quickly, with disguises, poems exchanged in secret, examinations, villains and a hard-won happy ending. These romances were the popular reading of their day, devoured by young men and women, imitated on the stage and admired abroad, and they remain charming, quick and surprising.
