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Li Du | Traveling scholar, former librarian in the Forbidden City, in exile |
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Sir Nicholas
| Gray | Foreign merchant from the English East India Company bringing gifts for the Emperor, staying at the Dayan magistrate's estate |
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Tulishen | Magistrate of Dayan, cousin of Li Du, formerly named Li Erfeng |
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Jia
| Huan | Tulishen's secretary |
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Mu
| Gao | Caretaker of Tulishen's library |
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Lady
| Chen | Tulishen's consort in Dayan, native of Snow Village |
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Brother Pieter
| Van Dalen | Talkative Jesuit, guest at Tulishen's estate, astronomer |
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Hamza | Traveling storyteller |
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Brother Martin | Walpole | Young priest also at Dayan, botanist |
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Doctor
| Yang | Doctor who attended Van Dalen's death, horticulturist |
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Mu
| Gao | Caretaker of the magistrate's library |
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Hoh | Innkeeper in Dayan, uncle of a maid at the magistrate's mansion |
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Norbu & Yonzheng | Couple traveling with the Tibetan Khampa caravan |
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Kalden | Dorjee | Khampa leader of the caravan |
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Bao | Niece of the innkeeper, a maid at the mansion |
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Old
| Mu | Clerk at the Office of City Records, cousin of Mu Gao |
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Hugh | Ashton | British botanist |