Empress Orchid
by Min, Anchee
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0618068872
- ISBN 13
- 9780618068876
- Seller
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Pueblo, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Bungalow Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17100
- Title
- Empress Orchid
- Author
- Min, Anchee
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0618068872
- ISBN 13
- 9780618068876
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- 0618068872, FICTION, HISTORICAL, Cixi,; Empress Dowager of China,; 1835-1908; Fiction.; Empresses; , Fiction.; China; History; Guangxu, 1875-1908; Fiction.; Biographical , fiction., Anchee Min, Signed, FIRST Edition, Biographical fiction China Chine Cixi
- Bookseller catalogs
- Asian Literature;
Terms of Sale
Bungalow Books, ABAA
Any item may be returned in original condition for any reason within a reasonable period and payment will be refunded.
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