Empress Orchid

By - Min Anchee

Floor - Floor 3

Published - Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2004

ISBN 10 - 0618068872

ISBN 13 - 9780618068876

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Chine Histoire 1875-1908 (Guangxu) Romans,

Shelf No - 5

Call Number - 813.54 MIN

Physical Description - xiii, 336 pages : map ; 24 cm.

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A fictional portrait of the infamous last empress of China follows the life of Orchid, a beautiful teenager from an aristocratic but impoverished family, who is chosen to become a low-ranking concubine of the emperor and who uses her seductive talents and intelligence to rise to a position of power in the Chinese court. 35,000 first printing.

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