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The Empress and Mrs. Conger: The Uncommon Friendship of Two Women and Two Worlds

Backhouse’s English literary style is of the era and flavour of the erotica of Aubrey Beardsley’s The Yellow Book. It caused Wang Xiaoge to re-read the great Chinese novels Dream of the Red Chamber and The Golden Lotus in order to equip herself with a style that would do justice to Backhouse’s florid and allusive prose and fin de siécle melancholy. In the event, the result was so successful that it suggests that one way to approach this book is to regard it not as the dubious memoir of a remittance man but as an autobiographical novel of erotic wish-fulfilment, but translated from Chinese and written by someone whose sensibilities, at the end of life, had become entirely Chinese.