Heart of the Dragon
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491_9781999401900
Victoria, a teenager adopted from China as a baby, lives a sheltered life in Toronto, until one day, in the blink of an eye, her whole world becomes dust in the wind. Her parents are killed in a fiery car crash. Victoria soon learns that powerful people have sent killers after her. She must evade these dangerous assassins while taking a perilous journey to China to look for her biological parents. In the course of her incredible odyssey, Victoria jumps out of a plane mid-flight without wearing a parachute, gets in a car chase on a sea-bridge in China, falling off the bridge into the sea below while trapped in the car; hangs outside the window at the top of the tallest building in China; wrestles with a hungry tiger, jumps off a high cliff, and kills three grown men with one arm.Many of the secrets surrounding Victoria's mysterious background are encoded in China’s ancient writing known as Oracle Bone script. She wears a pendant of ancient jade pieces on which are carved oracles of the apocalypse described as 'stopping-of-the-sun.' Victoria’s amazing story is interwoven with China’s first historical queen from the Shang dynasty (circa 1200 BCE) who was also a seasoned warrior. The warrior queen's name is Fu Hao. Victoria's story describes one of Fu Hao's battles with a neighbouring tribe in Homeric detail. Fu Hao's undisturbed tomb was discovered in 1976, an eventful year for China, and a most important year for Victoria. .Victoria is also linked to a barbarian tribe in northeastern China which came into being shortly before the Han dynasty (circa 200 BCE). Years later, these barbarians and their descendants would go south to rule large parts of China for hundreds of years. They are the Xianbei and the Khitan. While the barbarians changed China, they eventually became an integral part of China. To this day, many countries still mistakenly call China and Chinese Khitai and Khitan. The English Cathay is a derivative of Khit
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