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