<div>Two girls come of age during the horrors of China&rsquo;s Cultural Revolution in this novel by the national bestselling author of Empress Orchid. The young and beautiful Wild Ginger is only in elementary school, but has already survived hell through her sheer iron will. Singled out by the Red Guards for her &ldquo;foreign-colored eyes,&rdquo; she has seen her deceased father branded a traitor and her mother commit suicide under the oppressive weight of persecution. But the young Wild Ginger will not allow herself to be taken down. Nor will she turn her back on other martyrs&mdash;like sweet Maple, daughter of a teacher of Chinese history, survivor of a labor camp, and victim of daily brutal beatings by a gang girl called Hot Pepper. While the two become fast friends over their shared ostracism, it is Wild Ginger who will take her Maoist principles to the extreme, becoming no less than a national model for the revolutionary Communist doctrine. But when both self-possessed young girls begin to feel a prohibited romantic love for the same boy, all three of them will face mortal danger. In this novel, the author of Pearl of China and the New York Times Notable Book Red Azalea &ldquo;continues her extraordinarily acute inquiry into the wounded psyches of martyrs&hellip;and survivors of China&#39;s horrific Cultural Revolution&hellip; As in all her unsparing, compelling, and transcendent books, Min discerns both the vulnerability and strength of individuals and, more disturbingly, unveils the eroticism of pain. Given our own times, Min&#39;s taut and compassionate tale of oppressed teenagers kept in ignorance of the wider world, children brainwashed into performing acts of violence and self-destruction, is especially urgent.&rdquo;&mdash;Booklist </div>

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Wild Ginger

<div>&ldquo;A fascinating novel, similar to Arthur Golden&rsquo;s Memoirs of a Geisha . . . A revisionist portrait of a beautiful and strong-willed woman&rdquo; (Houston Chronicle). A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year From Anchee Min, a master of the historical novel, Empress Orchid sweeps readers into the heart of the Forbidden City to tell the fascinating story of a young concubine who becomes China&rsquo;s last empress. Min introduces the beautiful Tzu Hsi, known as Orchid, and weaves an epic of the country girl who seized power through seduction, murder, and endless intrigue. When China is threatened by enemies, she alone seems capable of holding the country together. In this &ldquo;absorbing companion piece to her novel Becoming Madame Mao,&rdquo; readers and reading groups will once again be transported by Min&rsquo;s lavish evocation of the Forbidden City in its last days of imperial glory and by her brilliant portrait of a flawed yet utterly compelling woman who survived, and ultimately dominated, a male world (The New York Times). &ldquo;Superb . . . [An] unforgettable heroine.&rdquo; &mdash;People &ldquo;A sexually charged, eye-opening portrayal of the Chinese empire . . . with heart-wrenching scenes of desperate failure and a sensuality that rises off its heated pages.&rdquo; &mdash;Elle</div>

Empress Orchid

<div>From the national bestselling author of Red Azalea: &ldquo;Extraordinary . . . Min lets [Madame Mao] be seen as never before. Bottom line: riveting&rdquo; (People). In a sweeping, erotically charged story, Anchee Min creates a finely nuanced portrait of one of the most fascinating, and vilified, women of the twentieth century. Madame Mao is almost universally known as the &ldquo;white-boned demon&rdquo;&mdash;ambitious, vindictive, and cruel&mdash;whose bid to succeed her husband led to the death of millions. But Anchee Min&rsquo;s story begins with a young girl named Yunhe, the unwanted daughter of a concubine who ignored her mother&rsquo;s pleas and refused to have her feet bound. It was the first act of rebellion for this headstrong, beautiful, and charismatic girl, who would find fame as an actress in Shanghai, and later fall in love and marry Mao Zedong. The great revolutionary leader proved to be an inattentive husband with a voracious appetite for infidelity, but the couple stayed together through the Communist victory, the disastrous Great Leap Forward, and the chaos of the Cultural Revolution. Min uses historical facts and her lush, penetrating psychological imagination to take us beyond the myth of the person who so greatly influenced an entire generation of Chinese. The result is a complex portrait of a woman who railed against the confines of her culture, whose deep-seated insecurities propelled her to reinvent herself constantly, and whose ambition was matched only by her ferocious, never-to-be-fulfilled need to be loved. &ldquo;Sheer poetry.&rdquo; &mdash;The Wall Street Journal &ldquo;A magnificent book: consequential, significant, beautiful . . . The true heroine is writer Anchee Min.&rdquo; &mdash;San Diego Union-Tribune</div>

Becoming Madame Mao

<div>&ldquo;Admirers of Empress Orchid will be interested in this sequel. Others may find the introduction to relatively modern Chinese history a revelation&rdquo; (Rocky Mountain News). During the tumultuous end of the nineteenth century in China, the only constant was the power wielded by one person: the resilient, ever-resourceful Tzu Hsi, Lady Yehonala&mdash;or Empress Orchid&mdash;as readers came to know her in Anchee Min&rsquo;s critically acclaimed novel covering the first part of her life. In The Last Empress, Orchid moves from the intimacy of the concubine quarters into the spotlight of the world stage. Devastating personal losses take their toll, leaving her yearning to step aside, but only she&mdash;allied with the progressives, but loyal to the conservative Manchu clan of her dynasty&mdash;can hold the nation&rsquo;s rival factions together. Anchee Min offers a powerful revisionist portrait based on extensive research of one of the most important figures in Chinese history. Viciously maligned by the western press of the time as the &ldquo;Dragon Lady,&rdquo; a manipulative, blood-thirsty woman who held onto power at all costs, the woman Min gives us is a compelling, very human leader who assumed power reluctantly, and who sacrificed all she had to protect those she loved and an empire that was doomed to die. &ldquo;The vision of an empress who very nearly had it all: vulnerability and strength, motherhood and power, earthiness and dignity, compassion and ambition.&rdquo; &mdash;The Washington Post &ldquo;Invokes the intrigue and opulence of nineteenth-century China while telling the story of its improbably dominant ruler.&rdquo; &mdash;Los Angeles Times</div>

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