Mei Li, a beautiful and highly educated Hui Chinese from Yunnan, is robbed of her job and qualifications as a doctor after falling foul of her disloyal husband and his spiteful and ambitious mother. In the chain of events that follows she finds herself forcibly used by the Chinese state to slake the sexual thirsts of depraved foreign guests. Merely for resisting her tormentors, she is thrown into prison without trial for six months.
What follows is a journey of pain, adventure and betrayal, but ultimately ending in finding true love and redemption.
This is Mei Li's story, complete and unexpurgated in all its thrilling and chilling detail and authenticity. It provides and eyewitness view of modern China and Japan we never see: including a rare and utterly convincing look inside the dark world of organised crime syndicates.
Most importantly, it provides a cogent account of the twenty-first century prostitution that officially does not exist in Japan. Controlled by Yakuza, the clandestine trade in what the author calls "firm young flesh from the poorest countries of Asia" echoes the infamous phenomenon of 'comfort women' perpetrated by the Japanese during World War 11.
The Other Side of the Coin also provides many insights into Asia life and culture, based on the author's more than 40 years living and working in Japan, China and Mongolia.
What follows is a journey of pain, adventure and betrayal, but ultimately ending in finding true love and redemption.
This is Mei Li's story, complete and unexpurgated in all its thrilling and chilling detail and authenticity. It provides and eyewitness view of modern China and Japan we never see: including a rare and utterly convincing look inside the dark world of organised crime syndicates.
Most importantly, it provides a cogent account of the twenty-first century prostitution that officially does not exist in Japan. Controlled by Yakuza, the clandestine trade in what the author calls "firm young flesh from the poorest countries of Asia" echoes the infamous phenomenon of 'comfort women' perpetrated by the Japanese during World War 11.
The Other Side of the Coin also provides many insights into Asia life and culture, based on the author's more than 40 years living and working in Japan, China and Mongolia.
