Empress Orchid
By: Anchee Min.
Publisher: Hougton Mifflin
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
Subjects: Cixi, Empress Dowager of China, 1835-1908 -- Fiction; Empresses -- Fiction; China -- History -- Guangxu, 1875-1908 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: A fictional portrait of the last empress of China follows Orchid, a beautiful teenager from an aristocratic family, who is chosen to become a low-ranking concubine of the emperor and rises to a position of power in the Chinese court.