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Lloyd Lofthouse rivals his wife/famed authoress Anchee Min with his impressive debut My Splendid Concubine, tracing the true-life exploits of Sir Robert Hart, the celebrated expatriate credited for bringing old China into the 20th century. A thought-provoking examination of attitudes, prejudices and cultures; rife with the entertainingly explicit dalliances of a single white man adrift in China.