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Ah-Jeh is a character in the 2009 historical fiction novel Red Lotus (first published in the US as The Concubine's Daughter). She exclusively appears in Part One: Children of the Moon.
Biography[]
Part One: Children of the Moon[]
| “ | We have a way to make those who run away wish they had no feet at all to run with. | „ |
| ~ Ah-Jeh |
Ah-Jeh is a senior sau-hai member, the superintendent of Ten Willows silk farm, and the second-in-command of the farm's owner Ming-Chou. She oversees the farm's operation and personally selects female workers to either sexually service Ming-Chou (become a "lantern girl") or join the sau-hai and become weavers. She is known to beat workers and have driven at least one (Morning Star) to suicide.
When Li-Xia defies her and Ming-Chou's decision to make her a lantern girl, Ah-Jeh gives her the options to either join the sau-hai or face death; Li-Xia chooses the latter. Ah-Jeh thus has her tortured and orders her publicly executed, but this is thwarted when Ben Devereaux rescues Li-Xia. When Li-Xia returns many years later, having been taken in and employed by Ben, Ah-Jeh and Ming-Chou are forced by her to improve the living and working condition of silk farm workers, then free Li-Xia's friend group, the mung-cha-cha, from their Ten Willows contracts. Ah-Jeh does not appear again.
Personality[]
Ah-Jeh is a brutal manager who readily abuses low-level silk farm workers physically and verbally; there has been at least one suicide resulting from her treatment. However, she appears to have some sympathy for Li-Xia for the latter's troubled background, leading her to offer Li-Xia sau-hai membership for her protection.
Being a sau-hai member, she subscribes to their misandric belief and admits that she hates all men equally, including Ming-Chou, but in practice continues to serve him on the grounds that he pays her well. She also readily molests Li-Xia while she is unconscious at one point, arguing that Li-Xia finds it pleasurable.
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Part One: Children of the Moon Part Two: Red Lotus | ||