{"product_id":"9781838905149","title":"A Looking-Glass World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e1900. For Tianjin’s European colonists a profitable new century is dawning, but for the city’s downtrodden Chinese natives the Zodiac cycle’s end signals imminent catastrophe. Meanwhile the fearsome Boxer warriors – said by some to be bulletproof – are spilling in from the provinces.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn restless streets, a dangerous liaison begins. Ouyang Jue, gentle layabout and heir to a merchant fortune, finds himself entangled with Xénia, a French officer’s daughter indulging every impulse on her first visit to China. Each sees liberation in the other; a chance to leap through the mirror and escape the mundane.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSeparated by the widening divide between their two worlds, the lovers were never meant to be. But as discontent sparks into all-out conflagration, will they find paradise behind the glass? Or will they join the ashes of what might have been?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51983661695207,"sku":"Fiction: China","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0724\/3680\/9959\/files\/91mcc693nBL._SY342.jpg?v=1776282892","url":"https:\/\/jfbooks.org\/products\/9781838905149","provider":"JF Books | 季風書園","version":"1.0","type":"link"}