In her memoirs, Wallis Simpson described her time in China as her ‘Lotus Year’.
Despite the many challenges she faced, from violent riots to the breakdown of her abusive first marriage, it was there that she established her confidence – and independence. Her Lotus Year takes a headlong dive into Wallis’s early, formative years – and into the chaotic and thrilling China of the 1920s – to explore the untold story of a woman too often maligned by history.



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