By Anchee Min
during this “absorbing spouse piece to her novel changing into Madame Mao” (New York Times), readers and studying teams will once more be transported by way of Min’s lavish evocation of the Forbidden urban in its final days of imperial glory and by way of her very good portrait of a mistaken but totally compelling lady who survived, and eventually ruled, a male world.
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