num_pages: 4
description: To rescue her family from poverty and avoid marrying her cousin, seventeen-year-old Orchid competes to be one of the Emperor's wives. When she is chosen as a lower-ranking concubine, she enters the ritualised Forbidden City and is exposed to all the chaos, corruption and treachery of the final days of the Chinese empire.
language: English
title: Empress Orchid
titlecomplete: Empress Orchid (BBC Audio)
characters: Prince Kung, Tzu Hsi, Emperor Hsien Feng
genres: Fiction, Historical, Cultural, Asia, China, Romance, Adult, Asian Literature, 19th Century, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 24163
places: Beijing, The Forbidden City, China
series: Empress Orchid
publisher: BBC Audiobooks