The last empress /
Anchee Min.
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2007.
- 308 p. ; 22 cm.
- Sequel to the Empress Orchid .
The last decades of the nineteenth century were a violent period in China's history marked by humiliating foreign incursions and domestic rebellion, ultimately ending in the demise of the Ch'ing dynasty. The only constant during this tumultuous time was the power wielded by one person, the resilient, ever-resourceful Tzu Hsi, Lady Yehonala -- or Empress Orchid, as readers came to know her in Anchee Min's critically acclaimed novel covering the first part of her life.
English
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Cixi, Empress dowager of China, 1835-1908 --Fiction.