Nirvana in Fire (3): A Chinese New Year Festival

Chinese New Year was approaching and cargo business was booming. The wharfies complained to the headman that the two boatloads of mandarin packages were unreasonably heavy. The traditional Chinese royal family was a strictly hierarchical community, with the emperor at the top as the absolute ruler and empress as his deputy sheriff Each morning, the Emperor’s lesser wives were required to […]
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