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(There is a succinct but helpful historical note at the beginning of the novel, and a map as well.
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The nanren were also used as disposable cannon-fodder for the Mongols’ endless wars.
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This part also establishes the reasons why ordinary people supported the rebels: the Yuan ruled through a four-caste hierarchy with Mongols at the top and the southern Chinese people ( nanren) at the bottom with no hope of any improvements in their lives. The power plays include jealousy, revenge, betrayal and sibling rivalry and they sow the seeds for the eventual defeat of this brutally powerful military force. Part 2 introduces the key characters of the Yuan dynasty who were fighting to defeat the Red Turban rebels (who would in real life defeat the Mongols and found the Ming Dynasty). Ouyang is there to collect ruinous taxes and when the abbot refuses, he sacks the monastery. In him she recognises a kind of twinship: neither one gender nor the other but somehow both.
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It is also there during her ordination ceremony that she first encounters her would-be nemesis the eunuch Ouyang, a brutal general in the Mongol army. ( Zhu Chongha was the real life founder of the Ming Dynasty, reimagined as a young queer peasant girl in the novel.)Įvents in the monastery establish her as wily, determined, ambitious and ruthless in a way that Buddhist monks are not supposed to be. She dresses as a boy and is accepted into a monastery as a monk, where she gets an education but is always at risk of her gender being discovered. To survive she takes on the identity and destiny of her brother Zhu Chongha. The novel’s hero, a ‘worthless’ girl is barely surviving a disastrous famine when she becomes the sole remnant of her family after a bandit raid. The power vacuum was filled by warlords, cult leaders, bandits and peasant rebellions. Populated with real people and events from history, She Who Became the Sun begins in 1345, at a time when the Yuan government had failed to deal with a succession of natural disasters and there was a breakdown of control at the local level. Parker-Chan currently lives in Melbourne, Australia, where she is very grateful to never have to travel by leaky boat ever again. After a failed search to find English-language book versions of these stories, she decided to write her own.
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Parker-Chan spent nearly a decade working as a diplomat and international development adviser in South-East Asia, where she became addicted to epic East Asian historical TV dramas. A 2017 Tiptree Otherwise Fellow, she is the author of the historical fantasy novel She Who Became the Sun. Shelley Parker-Chan is an Australian by way of Malaysia and New Zealand. during the Yuan Dynasty in China, when China was under Mongol rule. Shelley Parker-Chan’s debut novel She Who Became the Sun, however, piqued my interest because it’s set in an era I know nothing about, i.e. Back in 2003 I read Lian Hearne’s best-selling medieval Japanese trilogy Tales of the Otori but became bored with it by Book 3. It’s been well over a decade since I read an epic historical fantasy.