Anchee Min

Reeling from tragedy, Orchid reluctantly assumes greater power over late 19th-century China....

The critically acclaimed author, Anchee Min, paints a fresh portrait of the last Chinese empress in this brilliantly fictionalized tale set during the waning days of the empire....

An internationally best-selling author, Anchee Min draws upon her Chinese heritage to pen lush historical epics....

Min returns to the story of her own life to give us the next chapter, an immigrant story that takes her from the shocking deprivations of her homeland to the sudden bounty of the promised land of America....

A revelatory and disturbing portrait of China, this is Anchee Min's celebrated memoir of growing up in the last years of Mao's China. Forbidden to speak, dress, read, write, or love as she pleased, she found a lifeline in a secret love affair with another woman....

Bringing her lush psychological insight to bear on the facts of history, Min penetrates the myth surrounding this woman and provides a "convincing, nuanced portrait of a damaged personality"....

A finales del siglo XIX la dinastía Qing está viviendo sus últimos días. La habilidad política de los antiguos emperadores se ha diluido en el arcaísmo de las estructuras de gobierno y las ambiciones colonialistas europeas....

At once a coming-of-age tale and a heart-rending love story, Wild Ginger explores the devastating experience of the Cultural Revolution, which defined Anchee Min’s youth....

Traveling to China during the Cultural Revolution to become an English teacher, Katherine awakens in her students a desire for Western lifestyles and becomes caught in a doomed love triangle....

At the end of the 19th century, China is rocked by humiliating foreign attacks and local rebellions....

It is the final days of the Chinese Empire when Orchid, a beautiful 17-year-old from an aristocratic but impoverished family, finds herself unexpectedly chosen to become a lower-ranking concubine of the emperor....

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