Empress Orchid
Author: Anchee Min
The setting is China’s Forbidden City in the last days of its imperial glory, a vast complex of palaces and gardens run by thousands of eunuchs and encircled by a wall in the center of Peking. In this highly ordered place — tradition-bound, ruled by strict etiquette, rife with political and erotic tension — the Emperor, “the Son of Heaven,” performs two duties: he must r….Read More
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