![]() ![]() And so when Lin Daiyu learns of this, she dies. Her parents die when she's very young, and she falls in love with her cousin, who ends up marrying a different cousin under false pretenses because he believes that this other cousin is actually Lin Daiyu when it's not. She's also very sensitive, and she has a tragic life in that she's an orphan. She's the best poet of her time, you could argue. And this character, Lin Daiyu - she is a poet. So in my novel, Daiyu is named after this character that comes from this famous novel. It is one of China's four great classic novels. ZHANG: Yes, so Lin Daiyu is a character that comes from this novel called "Dream Of The Red Chamber" - "Honglou Meng" in Chinese. And from the beginning, Daiyu has this very complicated relationship with that name. Daiyu is named after this seemingly mythical character, Lin Daiyu, who has a tragic story. The main character and, really, the beating heart of this story is Daiyu. It's also Jenny Tinghui Zhang's debut novel. It's historical fiction that lays bare the human tragedy behind the infamous Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. We learn about her and the ghosts she carries with her in "Four Treasures Of The Sky," a surreal and sprawling story spanning two continents. Daiyu is a Chinese girl who's kidnapped from her homeland and taken to late 1800s America, when anti-Asian sentiment is surging throughout the Western frontier. ![]()
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