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082 0 _aFIC MIN
100 1 _aMin, Anchee
245 1 0 _aEmpress orchid
_b: a novel
_c/ Anchee Min
260 _aBoston
_b: Houghton Mifflin
_c, 2005 c,2004
300 _a336 p. pbk
_c; 21 cm.
520 _aThe 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.
650 4 _aEmpresses
_v--Fiction
651 _aChina
_x-History
655 7 _aBiographical fiction
655 7 _aHistorical fiction
942 _cMO
999 _c250069
_d250069