Express Orchild 兰花皇后

作者：  Anchee Min 著

出版社： 2005-1-1

简介：Empress orchid delivers a fictional peek into the intrigues of the Forbidden City...strong on both sexual chicanery and violent conspiracy...a fascinating account'Guardian.Based on the true story of China's last Empress, a charismatic woman from an impoverished aristocratic family, who comes to life in this fascinating novel'Image.　　'An engrossing story ... it is enhanced by Min's imaginative power and her skill in enlivening chunks of history with deft strokes of her brush' Glasgow Herald'Playing on every one of our senses, Anchee Min iUuminates the darkest aspects of the exclusive Forbidden City ... exquisite ... With a dying Emperor who has only one son, opium wars, manipulative concubines, powerful eunuchs, treachery, eroticism and names like Little Cloud and the Hall of Literary Zest. 　　作者简介：　　Anchee Min was born in Shanghai in 1957. At seventeen she was sent to a labour collective, where a talent scout for Madame Mao's Shanghai Film Studio recruited her to work as a movie actress. She moved to the United States in 1984. Her memoir, Red Azalea, was an international bestseller with rights sold in twenty countries. Her novels, Becoming Madame Mao, Katherine and Wild Ginger were published to wonderful reviews and impressive foreign sales.