![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was encircled by walls thirty feet high and twelve feet thick dating from the Tang dynasty (AD 618–907), surmounted by battlements, dotted with sixteen forts at regular intervals, and wide enough to ride a horse quite easily along the top. Like most towns in China, Yixian was built like a fortress. The liaison was arranged by her father, a police official in the provincial town of Yixian in southwest Manchuria, about a hundred miles north of the Great Wall and 250 miles northeast of Peking. Much of it, including Manchuria, where my grandmother lived, was ruled by warlords. The year was 1924 and China was in chaos. 1 ‘Three-Inch Golden Lilies’ Concubine to a Warlord General 1909–1933 At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general, the police chief of a tenuous national government of China. ![]()
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