Empress Orchid

author: Min, Anchee
Tzu Hsi, known as Orchid, enters China's Forbidden City at the age of seventeen to serve as a concubine for the Emperor, and when she bears the monarch a son, she is elevated to the rank of Empress, where she struggles to maintain her position and the right to raise her own child.
year: 2004, 2005
call number/section: 1000
subjects: cixi, empress dowager of china, 1835-1908, fiction, empresses, fiction, biographical fiction, historical fiction, china, history, guangxu, 1875-1908, fiction

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Empress Orchid
Min, Anchee
Hougton Mifflin (2004)
Tzu Hsi, known as Orchid, enters China's Forbidden City at the age of seventeen to serve as a concubine for the Emperor, and when she bears the monarch a son, she is elevated to the rank of Empress, where she struggles to maintain her position and the right to raise her own child.
Schools: 2



Empress Orchid
Min, Anchee
Houghton Mifflin (2005)
Tzu Hsi, otherwise known as Orchid, becomes the lover, and eventually the wife of the king, and after a coup that deposes her husband, she is left in charge of a troubled country until her son comes of age.
Schools: 0


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