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xjuliaaaaaax 's review for:
The Last Empress
by Anchee Min
challenging
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Reading Min’s perspective on the life of Tzu Hsi, and the parallel downfall of the Qing dynasty, feels unfortunately familiar to the division in much of modern politics and party divisiveness. And in the character of the empress, we can empathisize with her desire to change, to do better, to survive; her pain at not knowing the path; and the humanity of her mistakes.