Sir Robert Hart | My Splendid Concubine by Lloyd Lofthouse

My Splendid Concubine is the critically acclaimed new China historical fiction novel from author Lloyd Lofthouse.

http://www.amazon.com/My-Splendid-Concubine-Lloyd-Lofthouse/dp/0595458432

No Westerner has ever achieved Sir Robert Harts status and level of power in China. Driven by a passion for his adopted country, Hart became the godfather of Chinas modernism, inspector general of Chinas Customs Service, and the builder of Chinas railroads, postal and telegraph systems, and schools. But his first real love is Ayaou, a young concubine.

Soon after arriving in China in 1854, Hart falls in love with Ayaou, but his feelings for her sister go against the teachings of his Christian upbringing and almost break him emotionally. To survive he must learn how to live and think like the Chinese. He also finds himself thrust into the second bloodiest conflict in history, the Taiping Rebellion, where he ends up making enemies of men such as the American soldier of fortune known as the Devil Soldier. During his first years in China, Robert experiences a range of emotion from bliss to despair. Like Damascus steel, he learns to be both hard and flexible, which forges his character into the great man he is yet to become.

Full of humanity, passion, and moral honesty, My Splendid Concubine is the deeply intimate story of Harts loyalty and love for his adopted land and the woman who captured his heart.

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Though a "moral hero" in China, My Splendid Concubine depicts another half of Sir Robert Hart: the dark half. Conscious that historical fiction readers demand potboilers over academic fare, Lloyd Lofthouse plays on Hart's notoriety, and obviously has fun while doing it.