Category: The Concubine Saga

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    Ten-Thousand Dreams

    By the end of 2008 (my first year as an indie author), My Splendid Concubine had sold 221 copies so I FAILED to reach my first goal by 279 books that no one bought.

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    The Self-Annihilation of Credibility – Part 6/6

    While Hart worked in Ningpo, as you may see, the concern of the Chinese and Westerners had little to do with the Taiping Rebellion and more with pirates and crime.

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    The Self-Annihilation of Credibility – Part 5/6

    Tilly, in claim six, ever the historian as she says in her Readers Cafe review of The Concubine Saga, points out that the Santai Dynasty mentioned in chapter four was not the oldest known dynasty when in fact the oldest was the Xia. She is correct but wrong at the same time.  The Xia (or […]

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    The Self-Annihilation of Credibility – Part 4/6

    In Tilly’s opinion, castrations only took place after a man was hired to work in the Forbidden City … She was wrong!

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    The Self-Annihilation of Credibility – Part 3/6

    No one knows what Hart actually paid for Ayaou or Shao-mei because Hart did not mention the price paid anywhere in his surviving journals

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    The Self-Annihilation of Credibility – Part 2/6

    Tilly claimed that Robert Hart could not have been raised to respect women as equals in Victorian England.

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    The Self-Annihilation of Credibility – Part 1/6

    If an author believes he or she has been defamed, then it is the duty of the author to speak out in his or her own defense unless a loyal fan does it first.

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    When a Girl becomes a Woman depends on the Law at the Time

    Depictions of ‘child-romance’ in ancient or modern Chinese literature are not difficult to find. Children are usually described as natural sexual beings…

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    The Value of Subjective Opinions

    “The Concubine Saga” earns an honorable mention in general fiction at the 2012 San Francisco Book Festival