false <![CDATA[Empress Orchid]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172102922m/139254.jpg 139254 19 From a master of the historical novel, Empress Orchid sweeps readers into the heart of the Forbidden City to tell the fascinating story of a young 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 seized power through seduction, murder, and endless intrigue. When China is threatened by enemies, she alone seems capable of holding the country together. In this "absorbing companion piece to her novel Becoming Madame Mao" (New York Times), readers and reading groups will once again be transported by Min's lavish evocation of the Forbidden City in its last days of imperial glory and by her brilliant portrait of a flawed yet utterly compelling woman who survived, and ultimately dominated, a male world. 936155 book 2005 Empress Orchid total:1991|5:474|4:804|3:572|2:117|1:24| 1991 7560 2642 348 3 2 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sun Jul 29 07:45:49 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 29 10:31:24 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Sep 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 03 16:46:29 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 15 18:38:05 -0700 2008
Regardless, the book depicts a fascinating time in Chinese history. Imperial China, deeply rooted in ritual a...more...]]> 0 1 false false Wed Aug 20 06:02:58 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 20 06:02:58 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Apr 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Feb 17 06:26:29 -0800 2008 Fri Jul 17 07:15:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Sep 28 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Feb 04 04:44:49 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 04 04:45:11 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Mar 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Sep 20 20:13:31 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 20:13:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Oct 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 13 00:57:19 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 00:57:52 -0700 2009 Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Author: An Chee Min

Novel ini menceritakan tentang kisah hidup seorang gadis Manchu yang bernama Anggrek Yehonala yang pada kemudian hari akan menjadi Permaisuri Cina yang sangat terkenal.

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"Empress Orchid" started off pretty strong -- Orchid, like Mehrunissa from "The Twentieth Wife,"...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Nov 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 18:18:07 -0800 2009
Anggrek, begitu dia diberi nama adalah seorang keturunan Manchu yang hidup dan dibesarkan di ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 07:10:22 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 14:51:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:24:26 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:24:26 -0800 2009 Min, author of the acclaimed Becoming Madame Mao, which fictionalized the life of a woman demonized in history books, again melds exhaustive historical and political research with expertly articulated characters in Empress Orchid. Critics praised the novel's linguistic dexterity (once in the U.S., M...

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because I liked it a lot. Because I so recently read the book about
Catherine the Great by Philippa Gregory, I drew a lot of parallels
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I learned so much more about Chinese History, esp. on Qing Dynasty. There are so many historical sites, with dramatic interpretations, and so many traditions usually held on Qing Dynasty.

Princess Yehonala, who became Empress Orchid since the death of His Royal Husband Empe...more...]]> 1 0 false false Fri Apr 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 17 11:33:58 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 00:19:47 -0700 2009 Snow Flower and the Secret Fan and Memoirs of a Geisha, Empress Orchid features a rags-to-riches story about a Manchurian peasant girl who ends up rising to the position of empress.

The book starts out with straightforward honesty t...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 15:48:44 -0800 2009 Thu Aug 13 18:40:02 -0700 2009 Empress Orchid
By Anchee Min
336pp. USA
$14.00
ISBN: 0-618-56203-6

For becoming one of the top five concubines during the Manchurian Ching dynasty, you get five bars of gold, one thousand taels of silver, thirty bolts of satin, silk, and cotton cloth, fiftee...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=139254