Empress Orchid [SEP] publisher
Orchid and General Yung Lu.
Bibliography.
- "Empress Orchid", Bloomsbury Publishing Incorporated, 2004,
External links.
- Bloomsbury
- Boston Globe Review
- New York Times Review
- The Richard and Judy top 10 books of 2006
Empress Orchid
Empress Orchid (2004) is a novel by Anchee Min which was first published in Great Britain in 2004. It is written in first person and is a sympathetic account of the life of Empress Dowager Cixi - from her humble beginnings to her rise as the Empress Dowager.
Names within the story are different in spelling but retain the same pronunciation - allowing the reader to identify each relevant character to his or her real life counterpart.
Empress Orchid was also a 2006 nominee for the Richard and Judy Best