Empress Orchid

Empress Orchid
by Anchee Min

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Author: Anchee Min
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-04-11
ISBN: 0618562036
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: Mariner Books

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Book Review: An excellent novel
Summary: 5 Stars

This novel is good from a literary perspective. We follow the life of Yehenara/Yehonala/Orchid/the future dowager empress Cixi as she is taken as a concubine into the Forbidden City until shortly after her husband's death.

Keep in mind that this is a novel, and while general historical facts are correct, the details of Orchid's life are speculative, and Anchee Min does a good job writing a story. Here we see the 'romance' between her and Hsien Feng - again speculative because no one knows how things REALLY were between the two of them. So please, pick up this book if you want a good read, but not as a historical text.

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Summary of Empress Orchid

From 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 China's last empress. Min introduces the beautiful Tzu Hsi, known as Orchid, and weaves an epic of a country girl who seized power through seduction, murder, and endless intrigue. When China is threatened by enemies, she alone seems capable of holding the country together. In this "absorbing companion piece to her novel Becoming Madame Mao" (New York Times), readers and reading groups will once again be transported by Min's lavish evocation of the Forbidden City in its last days of imperial glory and by her brilliant portrait of a flawed yet utterly compelling woman who survived, and ultimately dominated, a male world.

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