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Empress Orchid by Lucia Corradini Caspani, Anchee Min

336 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

fiction historical romance informative mysterious tense medium-paced
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It is the final days of the Chinese Empire. Trade in Opium with Europe is slowly corroding the power of the Ch'ing Dynasty. Orchid, a beautiful seventeen-year-old from an aristocratic, but impoverished family, is pushed into the maelstrom when she...

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