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Rent Empress Orchid
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: Apr 2005
Genre: Fiction - Historical - General
Retail Price: $16.99
Pages: 346
Synopsis
EMPRESS ORCHID is the story of one of the concubines of the Chinese emperor in the last days of the Ch'ing dynasty. Though she is only 17, Orchid rises in the emperor's favor until, as the empire falls, she finds herself in the position of empress, and deeply immersed in the complex politics of the time.
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