“The really interesting thing for me was: he was a novice monk in his youth. She Who Became The Sun is a re-imagining of the rise to power of Zhu Yuanzhang, who was the peasant rebel who expelled the Mongols, unified China under native rule, and became the founding Emperor of the Ming Dynasty: “Zhu Yuanzhang started life as a starving peasant orphan and rose to become the tyrannical founding emperor of the Ming dynasty,” Parker-Chan continues. Can anyone fool Heaven indefinitely, escaping what’s written in the stars? Or can Zhu claim her own future, burn all the rules and rise as high as she can dream? But all the while, she feels Heaven is watching. Zhu’s pursuing the destiny her brother somehow failed to attain: greatness. Stealing her dead brother’s identity to survive, she rises from monk to soldier, then to rebel commander. In Mongol-occupied imperial China, a peasant girl refuses her fate of an early death.
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