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Book Review of Empress Orchid

Empress Orchid
Empress Orchid
Author: Anchee Min
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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Helpful Score: 1


Absorbing, rich in detail. The reader is drawn into the inner sanctums of life in the The Forbidden City, as told through the eyes of Orchid, the fourth concubine of the last Emperor of China and the mother of the last Manchu Emperor (mid to late 1800s). Fascinating story, well told.