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In a significant, erotically charged story that moves gracefully from the intimately personal to the truly amazing period of world record, Anchee Min makes a strong tale of love, betrayal, and success and produces a carefully nuanced and usually uncertain face of 1 of the very intriguing, and vilified, ladies of the twentieth-century. Madame Mao is nearly universally referred to as the "white-boned demon" -- cruel, vindictive, and bold -- whose bet to achieve success her husband resulted in the demise of thousands. But Minute's history starts with a woman called Yunhe, the daughter of a concubine who declined to possess her feet bound and dismissed her mother's pleas. It had been the very first act of rebellion for this gorgeous, headstrong, and charming woman.