TY  - SOUND
AU  - Min,Anchee
AU  - O'Karma,Alexandra
TI  - Empress Orchid
SN  - 1402574975 :
AV  - PS3563.I4614 E47 2004c
U1  - 813/.54 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Prince Frederick, Md.
PB  - Recorded Books
KW  - Cixi,
KW  - Empresses
KW  - Fiction
KW  - China
KW  - History
KW  - Guangxu, 1875-1908
KW  - Biographical fiction
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Historical fiction
N1  - Compact discs; Narrated by Alexandra O'Karma; Issued also on cassette
N2  - Unabridged. Seventeen-year-old Orchid belongs to an aristocratic family that has fallen on hard times. Unexpectedly, she is chosen as one of the emperor's lesser concubines. Within the Forbidden City are thousands of women hoping to bear the emperor a son and become his empress. Orchid, determined and resourceful, schemes her way into the royal bed and seduces the emperor. But as the opium trade erodes the might of the Ch'ing dynasty, Orchid find herself at the center of a crumbling nation
ER  -