Barbarians

Beginning in the scented rooms of the Forbidden City where the Chinese Emper- or's First Concubine has a child, not the Emperor's but that of her secret lover, moving swiftly to the bloody execution of twenty criminals witnessed by ahorrified English doctor newly arrived in the Orient and then exploding out ontothe huge canvas of a civil war that tore apart China, "BARBARIANS" is fast mov- ing and very dramatic.