Pai, the beautiful 300-year-old amnesiac mystic, and her companion-cum-immortal slave, Tokyo student Yakumo Fujii, may have found the clues they seek to help them discover the secrets of the Sacred Land. Joined by the dashing relic-hunter Jake MacDonald, Yakumo and Pai discover an ancient temple that may hold the key to returning Pai and Yakumo to their human forms. However th...(展开全部)

This is the first English translation of Lee Ao's novel Martyrs' Shrine. Based on the events of the spirited but unsuccessful "Hundred Days' Reforms" movement, this book sweeps readers into the chaotic and fabled world of late imperial China.

the funerary shrine of the Confucian scholar Wu Liang, created in AD 151, is the most important surviving pre-Buddhist monument in China. The importance of the shrine lies in the stone reliefs on its walls, in the remarkably comprehensive iconography of its nearly 100 scenes.