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The Last Empress by Anchee Min

The Last Empress

by Anchee Min
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  • Mar 21, 2007, 320 pages
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  • Apr 2008, 336 pages
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“My tutor can paint for me,” I would say to An-te-hai. “Nobody will know that I didn’t apply the stamps myself.”

“But you would know, my lady,” the eunuch would reply quietly, and he would escort me back to my palace.

Copyright © 2007 by Anchee Min. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company.

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