Si Wang-mu
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Si Wang-mu is a major character in the science fiction novels Xenocide and Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card. She is named after the Chinese goddess Xi Wangmu, the Royal Mother of the West.
She is a very intelligent and ambitious girl, but because her world has a rigidly stratified social hierarchy and she is the child of lower-class parents, she has not been well educated; it is assumed that the best she can hope for is to be a servant. She approaches the young "godspoken" lady Han Qing-jao while they are doing "righteous labor" in the rice paddies. Qing-jao is pleased with Wang-mu's intelligence and honesty, hires her as her servant and also begins to educate her.
They become friends for a while, until the sentient computer program Jane reveals that the godspoken have been genetically modified by Congress as a deliberate strategy to make them useful but not a threat. Qing-jao cannot accept this and believes that Jane must be destroyed, but Wang-mu sees Jane as an intelligent and compassionate person and is greatly saddened at the thought of her death. Qing-jao dismisses Wang-mu from her service, but her father, Han Fei-tzu, calls her back to help save Jane and the people of Lusitania . At the end of Xenocide, Wang-mu leaves her home planet, Path, with the young Peter Wiggin to continue this mission, which is detailed in Children of the Mind.
| Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game series | |
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| International Fleet | Admiral Chamrajnagar | Hyrum Graff | Mazer Rackham |
| Battle School | Petra Arkanian | Bean | Achilles de Flandres | Bonzo Madrid | Ender's Jeesh | Other Battle School students |
| Ender's family | Ender Wiggin | John Paul Wiggin | Peter Wiggin | Theresa Wiggin | Valentine Wiggin |
| Other | Han Qing-jao | Si Wang-mu | Jane | Minor characters |
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