The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty: "The Weeping Swan: Ten Days of the City's Fall" New Character: Lin Pianpian

Lin Pianpian was born into poverty. In the thirteenth year of the Chongzhen era (1640), she worked as an itinerant courtesan peddling her services on the streets of Twenty-Four Bridges' Willow Lane. By chance, she becam…