The Resource Empress Orchid, Anchee Min
Empress Orchid, Anchee Min
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The item Empress Orchid, Anchee Min represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Internet Archive - Open Library.
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- Summary
- From the master of the historical novel, Empress Orchid sweeps readers into the splendid heart of the Forbidden City to tell the fascinating story of a young Chinese concubine who becomes China's last empress. Min introduces the beautiful Tzu Hsi, known as Orchid, and weaves an epic of a country girl who seizes power through seduction, murder, and endless intrigue. When China is threatened by enemies, she alone seems capable of holding her country together. A novel of high drama and lyricism and lavish historical detail, Empress Orchid provides an extraordinary look inside the Forbidden City in its last days of imperial glory and breathes life into one of the most important women in history
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st Mariner Books ed.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xv, 346 pages
- Note
- Includes a readers guide to Empress Orchid: p. [339]-346
- Label
- Empress Orchid
- Title
- Empress Orchid
- Statement of responsibility
- Anchee Min
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- From the master of the historical novel, Empress Orchid sweeps readers into the splendid heart of the Forbidden City to tell the fascinating story of a young Chinese concubine who becomes China's last empress. Min introduces the beautiful Tzu Hsi, known as Orchid, and weaves an epic of a country girl who seizes power through seduction, murder, and endless intrigue. When China is threatened by enemies, she alone seems capable of holding her country together. A novel of high drama and lyricism and lavish historical detail, Empress Orchid provides an extraordinary look inside the Forbidden City in its last days of imperial glory and breathes life into one of the most important women in history
- Cataloging source
- JSZ
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1957-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Min, Anchee
- Illustrations
- maps
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3563.I4614
- LC item number
- E47 2004
- Literary form
- fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Historical fiction
- Cixi
- China
- Empresses
- Label
- Empress Orchid, Anchee Min
- Note
- Includes a readers guide to Empress Orchid: p. [339]-346
- Edition
- 1st Mariner Books ed.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xv, 346 pages
- Form of item
- online
- Other physical details
- map)
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1033590950
- Label
- Empress Orchid, Anchee Min
- Note
- Includes a readers guide to Empress Orchid: p. [339]-346
- Edition
- 1st Mariner Books ed.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xv, 346 pages
- Form of item
- online
- Other physical details
- map)
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1033590950
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