Min, Anchee, 1957-

Empress Orchid / Anchee Min. - Boston : Hougton Mifflin, 2004. - xiii, 336 p. : map ; 24 cm.

Wilson's Fiction Library Journal Booklist starred

Tzu Hsi, known as Orchid, enters China's Forbidden City at the age of seventeen to serve as a concubine for the Emperor, and when she bears the monarch a son, she is elevated to the rank of Empress, where she struggles to maintain her position and the right to raise her own child.

Adult Follett Library Resources

0618068872

2003056891


Cixi, Empress Dowager of China, 1835-1908 --Fiction.
Cixi, Empress Dowager of China, 1835-1908 --Fiction.


Empresses--Fiction.
Empresses--Fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.


China--History--Guangxu, 1875-1908--Fiction.
China--History--Fiction.


Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.

PS3563.I4614 / E47 2004

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