The Deer and the Cauldron Series by Jin Yong, John Minford

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  • The Deer and the Cauldron: The First Book (The Deer and the Cauldron #1)
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    The Deer and the Cauldron: The First Book (The Deer and the Cauldron #1)

    Jin Yong

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 1997

    On the Dragon Throne of China sits the young Manchu Emperor Kang Xi. Back in 1644, his great-uncle Dorgon broke through the Great Wall from Manchuria in the north-east and took the Imperial capital, Peking. Now twenty years later, the Manchus are quelling the last sparks of Chinese resistance, hounding down members of the underground movement known as the Triad Secret Society... more

  • The Deer and the Cauldron: The Second Book (The Deer and the Cauldron #2)
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    The Deer and the Cauldron: The Second Book (The Deer and the Cauldron #2)

    Jin Yong, John Minford

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 4 ratings · published 1969

    The second part of a three-volume picaresque historical romance by one of China's most popular authors follows the turbulent adventures of mercurial anti-hero Trinket as he embroils himself with flair in ever more complex intrigues at court and in the dense underworld of seventeenth-century China. All is definitely not as it seems in the palace of that Old Whore, the Empress Dowager... more

  • The Deer and the Cauldron: The Third Book (The Deer and the Cauldron #3)
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    The Deer and the Cauldron: The Third Book (The Deer and the Cauldron #3)

    Jin Yong

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 4 ratings · published 1969

    The third and final volume of the picaresque historical romance by one of China's most popular authors deals with Satrap Wu Sangui's imminent bid for Imperial Power and Trinket's increasingly complex attempts to balance his own multiple identities: as friend and confidant of the Emperor Kang Xi, as the White Dragon Marshal of the Mystic Dragon Sect, and as one of the Lodge Masters of the Triad Secret Society... more

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