A young woman suffers a chain of calamities against the backdrop of early 20th century China.
And you thought they just had to lie there. According to Amy Tan's scrupulously researched novel "The Valley of Amazement," a courtesan in 1912 Shanghai would have had to master a hundred sexual positions, including "upward, backward, seated, standing, feet pressed on his stomach, legs in the air, the Bucking Horse, the Swaying Bamboo Shoots, Tigress Meets the Dragon, Oysters in the Turtle Shell" — all of it the distillation of "five thousand years of lovemaking, excitement, and boredom."
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And you thought they just had to lie there. According to Amy Tan's scrupulously researched novel "The Valley of Amazement," a courtesan in 1912 Shanghai would have had to master a hundred sexual positions, including "upward, backward, seated, standing, feet pressed on his stomach, legs in the air, the Bucking Horse, the Swaying Bamboo Shoots, Tigress Meets the Dragon, Oysters in the Turtle Shell" — all of it the distillation of "five thousand years of lovemaking, excitement, and boredom."
via Books - latimes.com http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/features/books/~3/eFZH9mW4en8/la-ca-jc-amy-tan-20131124,0,4625138.story
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