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José Frèches
José Frèches (born 25 June 1950, in Dax, Landes) is a French historical novelist with novels set in China.
His first trilogy "The Jade Disk" is a story, set during the Warring States period in disunited China. It tells the story of the character of the rich merchant and eventual prime-minister Lü Buwei - real father of the first emperor of China Qin Shi Huang. It portrays the struggles between the other kingdoms and Kingdom of Qin, destined to unite China.
reveals his true identity to a shocked Lü Buwei later and kills him.
- Lü Buwei is a major character in the historical novel series "The Jade Disk" by José Frèches.
- The story of Lü Buwei is retold in graphic form, partly framed as a romance comic, in the second volume of "The Cartoon History of the Universe".
- Hermann Hesse mentions Lü Buwei in his book "The Glass Bead Game" as a character that mentions that the quality of the music is directly related