Price: Free! 2650 words. Published on January 19, 2012. Fiction.
It is a time of turmoil and Civil War in China. The Communists and Nationalists are at war. Xiao Yian, a young teenage girl escapes rape and famine to become a circus performer - a Tiger Tamer - in Shanghai. There she has to face up to the fact that she must leave her teenage years behind her and accept her future as a woman.