The astonishing sequel to the best-selling 'Empress Orchid'.
In Anchee Min's internationally best-selling 'Empress Orchid', a small-town woman rises to power through sexual seduction and even murder to become Empress of China. In the stand-alone sequel, 'The Last Empress', Min chronicles Orchid's rule as she raises two sons to be emperors and confronts the Boxer Rebellion.
Min provides a vivid, copiously researched portrait of a flawed yet utterly compelling woman who survived in a male world, a woman who heroically struggled to hold a falling empire together for more than fifty years and also struggled to maintain her own humanity.
