Yep, Laurence. <br/><br/>
Lady of Ch'iao Kuo :  warrior of the South / 
by Laurence Yep. 
 - New York, NY :  Scholastic Inc,  2001. 
 - p.  cm. 
 - The royal diaries .
<br/><br/> Summary: In 531 A.D., a fifteen-year-old princess of the Hsien tribe in southern China keeps a diary which describes her role as liaison between her own people and the local Chinese colonists, in times of both peace and war. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0-439-16483-4 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>China--History--Liang dynasty, 502-557--Fiction<br/>Princesses--Fiction<br/>Diaries--Fiction<br/>War--Fiction