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Recommended Reading - The Ginger Tree

The Ginger Tree, by Oswald Wynd, a wonderfully researched, moving, historical fiction novel following a young Scottish woman’s experience in China and Japan in the early 1900s.

This is a wonderfully researched, moving historical novel following a young Scottish woman’s experience among Chinese and Japanese mores and landscapes. It begins in 1903 and follows her through the beginning of WWII. It was made into a 4-part, 1989 collaborative mini-series by the BBC and Japan’s NHK.