Martyrs' Shrine - The Reform Movement of 1898 in China (Hardcover)

Lee Ao's novel Martyrs' Shrine: The Reform Movement of 1898 in China, based on the events of the "Hundred Days' Reforms" movement, has as its main characters several of the leading Chinese intellectual and political figures of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The reader is swept up in their determined quest to overcome the obstacles to progress and modernization.