Giving history a bright future
By Wang Ru |
China Daily |
Updated: 2021-01-13 08:01
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Fifteen Days Between Two Capitals. [Photo provided to China Daily]
Mixing fact, fiction and imaginative writing, author uses creative license to render the people and places of Ming Dynasty China in vivid detail, Wang Ru reports.
Events in 1424 have provided a surprising backdrop to a novel that is attracting a large readership. It proves that old adage that in publishing, history's future is bright.
That year, decades before Christopher Columbus was born, saw a number of earthquakes strike Nanjing which, a few years earlier, had been the capital of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644).