Autor Anchee Min

This is an erotic story of Imperial China from the author of 'Red Azalea' and 'Becoming Madame Mao'.

Peasant workers, production lines, and eager schoolchildren: this rare and fascinating publication brings together key artworks from Max Gottschalk's vast collection of Chinese propaganda posters. Produced between the birth of the People's Republic in…

To rescue her family from poverty and avoid marrying her slope-shouldered cousin, seventeen-year-old Orchid competes to be one of the Emperor's wives. When she is chosen as a lower-ranking concubine she enters the erotically charged and ritualised Forbidden…

Hlavná aktérka príbehu prichádza medzi nových spolužiakov na základnej škole a okamžite dostáva príučku nielen za svoje nevšedné dievčenské meno - Divý zázvor - a zvláštne črty tváre, ale aj za svoj nedobrý triedny pôvod. Ďalšie roky jej života plynú…

At the end of the nineteenth century China is rocked by foreign attacks and local rebellions. The only constant is the power wielded by one woman, Tzu Hsi, also known as Empress Orchid, who must face the perilous condition of her empire and devastating…