Here is the haunting story of the great female poet Hung Tu, who
flourished in the ninth century during one of the great periods of
Chinese literature. The daughter of a Government official far from
the capital, on the Silk River, she was, most unusually, brought up
with her brothers whom she far outshone. Falling on evil times, her
father sells her to the best Blue House on the Silk River. Hung
Tu's poetry and calligraphy bring her great renown, and the story
traces her rise from Flower-in-the-Mist to Official Hostess at the
court of the governors of the Silk City, and her love affair with
the poet Yuan Chen. Set against the backdrop of the scholars,
poets, officials, and warring factions of ninth century China, this
wonderful story reconstructs one of the great periods of China -
turbulent, cruel, yet with a sense of beauty remarkable by any
standards and in any age. Go Ask the River is a tale not only of
historical China, but of the human struggle to discover how to be
alive. 'Throughout runs the Taoist Philosophy - the Eight Signs of
the Golden Flower, the meaning of Tao, the place of women in
Oriental society. Hung Tu emerges as a vibrant figure, radiating a
sense of beauty, balance, and well-being.' - Montreal Star 'The
stylized sensuality of the world that Miss Eaton writes about is so
clearly defined by the cool simplicity of her language that as we
read this tale of ninth-century China we see that it all happened
just as she tells it, and her characters are as real to us as
though we read about them in the newspapers every day.' - The New
Yorker 'A many-splendored trip through a rainbow world.' -
Publishers Weekly
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