Audiobook Empress Orchid: Love is Survival, Seduction is Power, and Treachery is a Way of Life by Anchee Min

Empress Orchid: Love is Survival, Seduction is Power, and Treachery is a Way of Life by Anchee Min
	Empress Orchid: Love is Survival, Seduction is Power, and Treachery is a Way of Life Publisher: BBC WW Author: Anchee Min Audio lenght: 4 hours and 58 min. To rescue her family from poverty and avoid marrying her cousin, 17-year-old Orchid competes to be one of the Emperor's wives. When she is chosen as a lower-ranking concubine, she enters the ritualised Forbidden City and is exposed to all the chaos, corruption, and treachery of the final days of the Chinese empire, including the thousands of concubines who will stoop to any lengths to bear the Emperor's son. Orchid succeeds in bribing her way into the royal bed and seduces the monarch, drawing the attention of dangerous foes. She does not know, however, that China will collapse around her and that she will be its last Empress. Chinese schoolchildren are taught that Empress Orchid destroyed China's 2,000-year-old imperial culture. This imaginative account peers beyond the notoriety to the real woman and is wonderfully read by Pik-sen Lim. More details on Empress Orchid: Love is Survival, Seduction is Power, and Treachery is a Way of Life Limited Time Offer - Get Your First 3 Months at Audible for $7.49/month!