Kang

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also known as Kang Tongbi, Widow Kang

POV character, scholar-poet

Chinese woman, poet and anthologist; lives in Lanzhou with Ibrahim; observes Muslim influx with critical detachment; pregnant during the flood; writes 'Treatise on the History of Women of Hunan'; authors materialist theory of religion; final poem ends Book Six.

In The Years of Rice and Salt (Kim Stanley Robinson, 2002)