Empress Orchid

Proof Copy. Royal 8vo. Pp. [xii], 513. Illustrated wraps.

Author's fourth novel. A 2004 San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year. Shortlisted for the 2006 Richard and Judy Best Read of the Year Award. Viciously maligned by its contemporary western press as the "Dragon Lady," a revisionist fictionalized account based on copious research of the Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi. Part of Min's loose China Trilogy, preceded by Becoming Madame Mao (2000), and bookended by The Last Empress (2007).

"An absorbing companion piece to her novel, Becoming Madame Mao." –John Hartl, New York Times