Empress Orchid / Anchee Min.
By: Min, Anchee.
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BookPublisher: Boston : Hougton Mifflin, 2004Description: xiii, 336 p. : map ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0618068872.Subject(s): Cixi, Empress Dowager of China, 1835-1908 -- Fiction | China -- History -- Guangxu, 1875-1908 -- Fiction | Empresses -- Fiction | Cixi, Empress Dowager of China, 1835-1908 -- Fiction | China -- History -- Fiction | Empresses -- Fiction | Biographical fiction | Historical fictionGenre/Form: Biographical fiction. | Historical fiction.DDC classification: 813/.54 Summary: 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.
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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.
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