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Author Min, Anchee, 1957-
Title Empress Orchid / by Anchee Min.
Publisher Boston : Hougton Mifflin, c2004.
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 Main - Adult Fiction  F M6635e    CHECK ON SHELF
 Main - Adult Fiction  F M6635e c.2  CHECK ON SHELF

Description xiii, 336 p. : map.
Notes Followed by: The last empress.
Summary A fictional portrait of the last empress of China follows Orchid, a beautiful teenager from an aristocratic family, who is chosen to become a low-ranking concubine of the emperor and rises to a position of power in the Chinese court.
Subject Cixi, Empress Dowager of China, 1835-1908 -- Fiction.
Empresses -- Fiction.
China -- History -- Guangxu, 1875-1908 -- Fiction.
Genre Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.