{"id":21639,"date":"2026-02-28T17:07:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T22:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=21639"},"modified":"2026-02-28T17:07:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T22:07:48","slug":"shen-tao","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/shen-tao\/","title":{"rendered":"Shen Tao"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>Shen Tao immigrated to Canada at an early age.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fiction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Poet Empress<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>New York: Bramble, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publisher&#8217;s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Wei Yin is desperate. After the fifth death of a sibling, with her family and village on the brink of starvation, she will do anything to save those she loves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even offer herself as concubine to the cruel, dissolute heir of the blood-gutted Azalea House\u2014where poetry magic is power, but women are forbidden to read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But in a twist of fate, the palace now stands on the knife-edge of civil war, with Wei trapped in its center. . . with a violent prince.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To save herself and the nation, she must survive the dangers of court, learn to read in secret, and compose the most powerful spell of all. A ballad of love. . . and death.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Links<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Shen Tao <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shentao.ca\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.shentao.ca\/\">personal website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Publisher <a href=\"https:\/\/torpublishinggroup.com\/imprints\/bramble\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/torpublishinggroup.com\/imprints\/bramble\/\">Bramble<\/a>, an imprint of Tor <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shen Tao immigrated to Canada at an early age. Fiction The Poet Empress New York: Bramble, 2026. Publisher&#8217;s Synopsis (From its website) Wei Yin is desperate. After the fifth death of a sibling, with her family and village on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/shen-tao\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":16,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21639","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21639"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21642,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21639\/revisions\/21642"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}