![]() ![]() Buck recreates the life of one of the most. ![]() Instead Buck has taken the easy route and presented what is very nearly a Harlequin romance, instead of a tightly written novel rife with the subtleties and intrigues of the Imperial Court. Buck including rare images from the author’s estate. Imperial Woman The story of Tzu Hsi is the story of the last Empress in China. Buck presents what should be a fascinating story about the last, and most famous, empress of China, Tzu Hsi. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Pearl S. Much has been written about Tzu Hsi, but no other novel recreates her life-the extraordinary personality, together with the world of court intrigue and the period of national turmoil with which she dealt-as well as Imperial Woman. When the emperor dies, she finds herself in a role of supreme power, one she’ll command for nearly fifty years. Already set apart on account of her beauty, she’s determined to be the emperor’s favorite, and devotes all of her talent and cunning to the task. Born from a humble background, Tzu Hsi falls in love with her cousin Jung Lu, a handsome guard-but while still a teenager she is selected, along with her sister and hundreds of other girls, for relocation to the Forbidden City. ![]() Buck brings to life the amazing story of Tzu Hsi, who rose from concubine status to become the working head of the Qing Dynasty. Imperial Woman is a fictionalized biography of Ci-xi (Tzu Hsi in Wade-Giles), who was a concubine of the Xianfeng Emperor and on his death became the de facto. “From the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Good Earth: the New York Times–bestselling biography of Tzu Hsi, the concubine who became China’s last empress. ![]()
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