Dynasty by Robert Elegant - 1977

The compelling story of a powerful Eurasian family divided by ambition, adultery. power, death and a country torn apart by ideology, revolution, intrique and bloodshed. Sir Jonathan Sekloong, illegitimate son of a Chinese woman and an Irish soldier of fortune, was the cunning, ambitious founder of the Sekloong dynasty. He built a trade empire that spanned three generations in China from the 1900's to Mao's Cultural revolution. The family's influence was felt from its base in Victorian Hong Kong to the Imperial Court of the last Empress - and later through its descendants in both Nationalist and Red China. The twin themes of how the Sekloong family unite their conflicting Occidental and Oriental heritages, and how the Chinese live and interact with an intrusive West that has repeatedly humiliated them - both on a political and personal level - dominate the public and private events of the book.

Read once condition. Book sits solid and square, hinges and binding tight. Contains 668 printed pages of text. No annotations or inscriptions. Bound in dark blue board, gilt lettering to spine. Foxing to top edge of text block. Bottom edge of spine has tear.