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| | The Story of Yang Kuei-fie, the Jade Beauty: China's Most Beautiful Woman |
 | | Yang Kuei-fei's lover, the Emperor Ming Huang (we must be explicit, for she had two), also lived in a jade world. |
 | | In addition to the Imperial jades custom required, the Emperor sat on a jade throne chair, secretly dallied with the dispossessed Mei Fei behind paper-thin jade screens, ate from jade dishes, encouraged his horse with a riding crop topped in jade, wrote on a jade plaque with a jade-handled brush. |
 | | But, as narrated in a long poem by Po Chu-i, this was not the end of her story; later, in a dream, Ming Huang saw her knocking at the jade door of the Palace of Paradise. |
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