Min, Anchee <br/><br/>
Empress orchid  : a novel 
/ Anchee Min 
 - Boston  : Houghton Mifflin  , 2005 c,2004 
 - 336 p. pbk  ; 21 cm. 
<br/><br/> The setting is China's Forbidden City in the last days of its imperial glory, a vast complex of palaces and gardens run by thousands of eunuchs and encircled by a wall in the center of Peking.  Empress Orchid is a novel of high drama and lyricism and the first volume of a trilogy about the life of one of the most important women in history. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780618562039 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Empresses----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>China---History
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Biographical fiction<br/>Historical fiction
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>FIC MIN