blend a ripe white peach, run thru a sieve, add 2 oz gin, soda water to taste, T of lemon juice, pour over ice and add a basil leaf then enjoy this book the painter Pan Yulian, an extraordinary artist (her paintings are sensual and bright) who rose from orphan to concubine, with a stop in a Chinese bordello. The book is admittedly all imagination, but what an imagination the author Jennifer Cody Epstein has. This book is beautiful and heartbreaking. And the fact so little of this woman's work remains is tragic.