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Mingmei's Carnegie Hall Qin Event
"A Festival Celebrating Chinese Culture":
Lecture/performance on Qin Music and Chinese Calligraphy
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Only 7 weeks after its release, Peach Blossom Pavilion is already in its 4th printing!!!

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Xiang Xiang,
heroine of Precious Orchid playing the Qin
(Painting by Mingmei Yip)

Mayor Bloomberg and Mingmei Yip
With New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, 07

Mary Higgins Clark with Mingmei Yip
With #1 best-selling author Mary-Higgins Clark, Marymount Manhattan College gala benefactors' dinner, Sherry-Netherland Hotel, New York City, March 4, 09.

Song of the Silk Road

Mingmei's new novel Song of the Silk Road will be published by Kensington Books in April 2011!

Song of the Silk Road is a romantic adventure on China's fabled route with the lure of a three million dollar reward.

Publisher's Weekly's favorable review:

“Yip’s lively new novel manages to be at once modern and traditional…Surprising and often funny….Part epic, part coming-of-age story, part modern fairy tale.”

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Praise for Mingmei's novels:
"Poignant...continues to linger in the reader's mind, with many scenes and words resounding...Peach Blossom Pavilion is sure to touch all who read it."  Mary Jo Putney, New York Times Bestselling author

“Lovely and evocative, provocative and unforgettable…book clubs will especially be fascinated.”  M.J. Rose, national bestselling author.

 "A serious, engaging of faith, devotion, and the commingling of cultures."  Booklist.

"Riveting...a rare peek into an exotic culture that is thrilling, captivating and moving." Shobhan Bantwal, award winning author

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Petals from the Sky by Mingmei Yip

Petals from the Sky is a Buddhist, interracial love story set in Hong Kong, China, Manhattan, and Paris, published in March 2010 by Kensington Books!

Petals from the Sky was # 7 on Amazon's kindle sale right after its release!!!

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Peach Blossom Pavilion

Peach Blossom Pavilion is the first novel in English about a Chinese courtesan (geisha) who was a qin musician!

From Recent Reviews:

A riveting account of mysterious lifestyles in pre-Communist China, PEACH BLOSSOM PAVILION is filled with amazing characters and unique stories. Xiang Xiang begins her tales through the eyes of an adolescent, shocked, and heartbroken at her losses. Her strength and perseverance is brilliantly portrayed in this stunningly presented novel…The journey she eventually takes is both exciting and poignant as Xiang Xiang finds not only who she seeks, in many ways, but also discovers herself… Beautifully written, readers will not be able to put this book down until the last page is turned.
Jani Brooks, Romance Review Today

"From a prodigiously talented new Chinese author comes a marvelous debut novel about a woman who becomes China's most successful courtesan. Yip's work echoes 'Memoirs of a Geisha,' but with a sharper, more suspenseful pace." Powell’s Books
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