The story of the last Empress of China.
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In this Nobel Prize winner Pearl S Buck recreates the life of one of the most intriguing rulers during a time of intense turbulence. Pearl S Buck's knowledge of and fascination with the Empress's life are contagious. She reveals the essence of this self-involved and infamous last Empress, while taking the reader through China's struggle for freedom and democracy.
Pearl S. Buck was born in West Virginia and taken to China as an infant before the turn of the century. Buck grew up speaking Chinese as well as English. She is the most widely translated American author to this day. She has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature. She died in 1973.
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