Imagine a civil war that left 150 million people dead. A war waged ruthlessly by the Emperor against his own helpless people. A war continued against all odds by a rebel leader who thought himself the brother of Jesus Christ. The Americans, British and French were caught up in the catastrophe that ensued.Frederick T Ward leads a band of mercenaries against the Taiping rebels. He may find Chinese customs primitive, but that's no reason not to make money out of them. Harry Lindley is searching for his missionary father. They are on a journey into the interior ...At the heart of the Celestial Realm, the Emperor is oblivious to these 'foreign devils'. Dazed by opulence and opium, nor does he notice the vicious internecine struggles around him - on one side his ministers, who see no obstacle but a little bloodshed between them and vast fortunes; on the other, swathed in silk and jewels, the implacable figure of the Emperor's first concubine.This was an extraordinary period in Chinese history, and "Barbarians" follows the exploits of two real-life figures, one an Englishman and the other an American, in Shanghai, while the politics of the Manchu court are centred upon the extraordinary girl, Yehonala, who rose from concubine to become the all-powerful "Queen Victoria of China ."
She understands.
Where the dead headland flare
Mocks sea and sand;
Where death-lights shed their glare
On No-Man's-Land.
France takes her stand.
Magnificently fair,
The Flaming Brand
Within her slender hand;
Christ's lilies in her hair.
Chapter 1 No.1
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Chapter 2 No.2
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Chapter 3 FED UP
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Chapter 4 MAROONED
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Chapter 5 CUCKOO!
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Chapter 6 RECONNAISSANCE
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Chapter 7 PARNASSUS
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Chapter 8 IN FINISTèRE
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Chapter 9 THE AIRMAN
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Chapter 10 EN OBSERVATION
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Chapter 11 L'OMBRE
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Chapter 12 THE GHOULS
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Chapter 13 THE SEED OF DEATH
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Chapter 14 FIFTY-FIFTY
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Chapter 15 MULETEERS
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Chapter 16 LA PLOO BELLE
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Chapter 17 CARILLONETTE
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Chapter 18 DJACK
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Chapter 19 FRIENDSHIP
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Chapter 20 THE AVIATOR
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Chapter 21 HONOUR
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Chapter 22 LA BRABAN ONNE
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Chapter 23 THE GARDENER
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Chapter 24 THE SUSPECT
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Chapter 25 MADAM DEATH
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Chapter 26 BUBBLES
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Chapter 27 KAMERAD
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