The Last Empress

Anchee Min

earliest edition we have, 2007 Houghton Mifflin, 2007 320 pages

Empress Orchid, a small-town woman rises to power through sexual seduction and even murder to become Empress of China. This book chronicles Orchid's rule as she raises two sons to be emperors and confronts the Boxer Rebellion.

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Editions we hold

The Last Empress paperback · 2008 · Mariner Books · 336 pages · 9780547053707
The last empress edition · 2008 · Windsor · 428 pages · 9781408413616
The Last Empress edition · 2007 · Houghton Mifflin · 320 pages · 9780618531462
The Last Empress audiobook · 2007 · Recorded Books · 9781428143524
The last empress edition · 2007 · Bloomsbury · 308 pages · 9780747578505

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