The Last Empress by Anchee Min [in San Francisco Chronicle]
01 Apr, by in Adult Readers, Chinese, Fiction, Repost
Any way you look at it, royal life is hell. So here's yet another book to prove it. "Although I had every luxury and my duties were often rewarding, Imperial glory also meant loneliness and living...
What's wrong with this picture?: An independent, cosmopolitan young woman, educated at Harvard and Oxford, proficient in six languages, who is on the fast track to becoming a diplomat in spite of a male-dominated society, gives...
Far atop the High Altai Mountains in western Mongolia is an unpredictable climate of extremes – breathtaking in its warmer beauty, yet unforgiving in the harshness of its frigid months. Unknown to most Westerners, the Republic...
Imagine a childhood marked by separation, isolation, abuse, sexual assault, disease and starvation. And imagine feeling lucky – because you survived such atrocities.
The most tragic irony of all is that Emily Wu is indeed lucky, even...