The Cinnabar Dragon
Jasmine Borschberg
At twelve, Li Hua is sold to a floating brothel, but destiny has other plans. Behind the walls of the Forbidden City, she evolves from concubine to spy. She navigates treachery, suppresses a rebellion, and engineers a bold escape with only a mastery of martial arts and a cinnabar dragon pendant imbued with the fatal poison known as GU.
In modern-day San Francisco, Lu Carter, an adopted Chinese American and a medical engineer, is introduced to the mysteries of her family’s past when she receives an ancient chronicle. During a trip to Shanghai, she uncovers her birth mother’s dark history—imprisonment and debts owed to the wrong people. Upon her return, Lu is terminated from her job and faces a corporate espionage lawsuit after her invention is leaked. But the past and present soon collide.
Duration - 8h 36m.
Author - Jasmine Borschberg.
Narrator - Emily Anna Dinwiddie-Cole.
Published Date - Tuesday, 14 January 2025.
Location:
United States
Networks:
Jasmine Borschberg
Emily Anna Dinwiddie-Cole
Austin Macauley Publishers
English Audiobooks
Findaway Audiobooks
Description:
At twelve, Li Hua is sold to a floating brothel, but destiny has other plans. Behind the walls of the Forbidden City, she evolves from concubine to spy. She navigates treachery, suppresses a rebellion, and engineers a bold escape with only a mastery of martial arts and a cinnabar dragon pendant imbued with the fatal poison known as GU. In modern-day San Francisco, Lu Carter, an adopted Chinese American and a medical engineer, is introduced to the mysteries of her family’s past when she receives an ancient chronicle. During a trip to Shanghai, she uncovers her birth mother’s dark history—imprisonment and debts owed to the wrong people. Upon her return, Lu is terminated from her job and faces a corporate espionage lawsuit after her invention is leaked. But the past and present soon collide. Duration - 8h 36m. Author - Jasmine Borschberg. Narrator - Emily Anna Dinwiddie-Cole. Published Date - Tuesday, 14 January 2025.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duration:00:00:11
About the Author
Duration:00:00:31
Dedication
Duration:00:00:22
Chapter One: San Francisco, Present Day
Duration:00:21:53
Chapter Two: Mark Chong
Duration:00:27:29
Chapter Three: The Swimmers
Duration:00:13:28
Chapter Four: East China Sea, 1847-1859
Duration:00:33:55
Chapter Five: San Francisco, Present Day
Duration:00:18:34
Chapter Six: Late Summer, 1861
Duration:00:33:19
Chapter Seven: Shanghai, Present Day
Duration:00:30:33
Chapter Eight: Mid-Autumn, 1861
Duration:00:18:31
Chapter Nine: Shanghai Radisson Blue Hotel, Present Day
Duration:00:12:31
Chapter Ten: Fountain Construction, 1962
Duration:00:24:45
Chapter Eleven: San Francisco, Present Day
Duration:00:11:56
Chapter Twelve: The Forbidden City, 1862
Duration:00:09:00
Chapter Thirteen: San Francisco, Present Day
Duration:00:19:34
Chapter Fourteen: At the Ruins of the Summer Palace, 1862
Duration:00:23:01
Chapter Fifteen: The Chongs' House, Present Day
Duration:00:13:06
Chapter Sixteen: Outside the Rebel Camp, 1862
Duration:00:12:35
Chapter Seventeen: San Francisco, Present Day
Duration:00:16:19
Chapter Eighteen: Three Years Later, 1865
Duration:00:43:46
Chapter Nineteen: San Francisco, Present Day
Duration:00:05:14
Chapter Twenty: The Next Decada, 1871-1881
Duration:00:20:43
Chapter Twenty One: San Francisco, Present Day
Duration:00:34:34
Chapter Twenty Two: The Marriot, San Francisco
Duration:00:12:17
Chapter Twenty Three: Aboard the Rising Tide, 1915
Duration:00:02:41
Chapter Twenty Four: Inside the Courtroom, San Francisco
Duration:00:16:53
Chapter Twenty Five: The Apartment on Powel Street
Duration:00:26:08
Chapter Twenty Six: Judge Abernathy Presiding, San Francisco
Duration:00:06:24
Chapter Twenty Seven: 1915
Duration:00:05:59
Closing Credits
Duration:00:00:12