Word: yonge
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slanting eyes of Ye-Ho-No-La made ardent avowal to the equally slanting, equally ardent eyes of her intended bridegroom, Yong-Lou. Both were aged ten. But at 15 she forsook the projected match for an infinitely worthier match. To the eternal glory of her family and the Manchu race, Ye-Ho-No-La became one of the 30 concubines attending the young Emperor of China. But the latter was a degenerate. His energy was spent in painting the town violet. Ye-Ho-No-La's problem was to convert the imperial energy to her own use, to induce...