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THE LAST EMPRESS.
by Min, Anchee
- Used
- hardcover
- Signed
- First
- Condition
- Fine in fine dust jacket./fine
- ISBN 10
- 0618531467
- ISBN 13
- 9780618531462
- Seller
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About This Item
Boston:: 2004., Houghton Mifflin,. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. The second volume in a trilogy about the life of Tzu Hsi, who entered the Forbidden Palace as a minor concubine at the age of 17, and rose to become Empress and the mother of the next Emperor. SIGNED by Anchee Min on a special bookplate for 'The Beverly Hills Literary Society' affixed to the front endpaper. 308 pp.
Synopsis
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.
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- Bookseller Inventory #
- 49782
- Title
- THE LAST EMPRESS.
- Author
- Min, Anchee
- Book condition
- Used - Fine in fine dust jacket.
- Jacket condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0618531467
- ISBN 13
- 9780618531462
- Publisher
- 2004.
- Place of Publication
- Boston:
- Date published
- Houghton Mifflin,
- Keywords
- tzu hsi, china, opium war, forbidden palace,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Asian and Asian American;
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