![]() ![]() It is really important to read this book as historical fiction, not historical fact. ![]() Who can ever know what was going on in someone’s mind? Especially someone as complex as Cixi. The book is written in first person, which always makes me dubious when writing about a historical person. (Min’s sequel, The Last Empress, picks up and covers the rest of Cixi’s life.) Both authors sounded interesting and I couldn’t decide who would be better to read, so I got one historical fiction book from each (the Lisa See book I will review next).Įmpress Orchid (in a nutshell) follows the life of the last empress of China, Cixi, from her teen-years, just before she became a concubine to the Emperor, until the death of the Emperor when she was about 30 years old. ![]() At Page One bookstore in Hong Kong in the Chinese writers section, Anchee Min and Lisa See dominate the shelves. I first read Empress Orchid by Anchee Min. ![]()
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