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THE LAST EMPRESS

By Anchee Min

Houghton Mifflin. 308 pp. $25

Anchee Min's historical novels about China have a clear purpose beyond entertainment or instruction. Beginning with "Becoming Madame Mao" (2000) and following with a two-volume epic about the dowager empress Tzu Hsi, the author has set out to reject traditional caricatures of female Chinese rulers as power-mad dragon ladies in favor of more nuanced, sympathetic fictional portraits.

"The Last Empress" is the second of the two novels about Tzu Hsi, who ruled China from the mid-19th century to 1908, during the waning years of the ...

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