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Goodreads members who liked empress orchid empress or. A fictional portrait of the last empress of china follows orchid, a beautiful teenager from an aristocratic family, who is chosen to become a lowranking concubine of the emperor and rises to a position of power in the chinese court. A san francisco chronicle best book of the year from anchee min, a master of the historical novel, empress orchid sweeps readers into the heart of the forbidden city to tell the fascinating story of a young concubine who becomes. A fascinating novel, similar to arthur goldens memoirs of a. Empress orchid is a brilliant recreation of another tumultuous period in chinese history, the late 1800s, when the empire was threatened from without by european imperialists and from within. In her previous novel, empress orchid, anchee min covered the first part of the life of tzu hsi, or empress orchid.
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