Imperial Woman by Pearl S. Buck

Imperial Woman

Pearl S. Buck

346 pages first pub 1956 (editions)

fiction classics historical informative mysterious tense slow-paced
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Imperial Woman is the fictionalized biography of the last Empress in China, Ci-xi, who began as a concubine of the Xianfeng Emperor and on his death became the de facto head of the Qing Dynasty until her death in 1908.Buck recreates the life of on...

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