![]() For years China had been dogged by famine and foreign aggression. Not until later did I learn that my father was not totally to blame. ![]() ![]() He had been repeatedly demoted because of his poor performance in the suppression of the Taiping peasant uprisings. In my memory, my father was not a happy man. A rotten smell that came from my father's coffin - he had been dead for two months and we were still carrying him, trying to reach Peking, his birthplace, for burial. As she rises in the ranks of his paramours, she faces enemies at all sides. Determined to improve her lot, she learns the art of seduction and bribes her way into the ruler's bed. ![]() Empress Orchid is a fictional account of the early life of Empress Dowager Cixi - also known as Orchid - who ruled China during the late Qing Dynasty.Īt the age of seventeen, Orchid competes to become one of the Emperor's wives and is chosen as a concubine. ![]()
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