Author: Anchee Min

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• NULL (4)
  • IN: Becoming Madame Mao (2000) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: You are what your deep, driving desire is. As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.
    FROM: Brihadaranyaka Upanishads IV. 4. 5., (-700), Religious Text, NULL
  • IN: Empress Orchid (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: She was a mastermind of pure evil and intrigue.
    FROM: Chinese textbook (in print 1949-1991), (None), Book, China
  • IN: The Last Empress (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: She was a mastermind of pure evil and intrigue.
    FROM: Chinese textbook (in print 1949-1991), (None), Book, China
  • IN: Wild Ginger (2002) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: During a certain period of our lives, we possess youth. The rest we spend living in the memories of it.
    FROM: from the diary of a former Red Guard, (None), Book, China
• Pearl S. Buck (2)
  • IN: Pearl of China (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Behind the calm steadfast eyes of a Chinese woman, I feel a powerful warmth. We might have been friends, she and I, unless she had decided first that I was her enemy. She would have decided, not I. I was never deceived by Chinese women, not even by the flower-like lovely girls. They are the strongest women in the world. Seeming always to yield, they never yield. Their men are weak beside them. Whence comes this female strength? It is teh strength that centuries have given time, the strength of the unwanted.
    FROM: Letter from Peking, (1957), Novel, US
• Sir Backhouse, Edmund (2)
  • IN: Empress Orchid (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: My intercourse with Tzu Hsi started in 1902 and continued until her death. I had kept an unusually close record of my secret association with the Empress and others, possessing notes and messages written to me by Her Majesty, but had the misfortune to lose all these manuscripts and papers.
    FROM: coauthor of China under the Empress Dowager (1910) and Annals and Memoirs of the Court of Peking (1914), (1910), Book, UK
  • IN: The Last Empress (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: My intercourse with Tzu Hsi started in 1902 and continued until her death. I had kept an unusually close record of my secret association with the Empress and others, possessing notes and messages written to me by Her Majesty, but had the misfortune to lose all these manuscripts and papers.
    FROM: coauthor of China under the Empress Dowager (1910) and Annals and Memoirs of the Court of Peking (1914), (None), Book, UK
• Sterling Seagrave (2)
  • IN: Empress Orchid (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In 1974, somewhat to Oxford's embarrassment and to the private dismay of China scholars everywhere, Backhouse was revealed to be a counterfeiter... The con man had been exposed, but his counterfeit material was still bedrock scholarship.
    FROM: Dragon Lady: The Life and Legend of the Last Empress of China (1992), (1992), Book, US
  • IN: The Last Empress (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In 1974, somewhat to Oxford's embarrassment and to the private dismay of China scholars everywhere, Backhouse was revealed to be a counterfeiter... The con man had been exposed, but his counterfeit material was still bedrock scholarship.
    FROM: Dragon Lady: The Life and Legend of the Last Empress of China (1992), (1992), Book, US
• Dr. Morrison, George Ernest (2)
  • IN: Empress Orchid (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: One of the ancient sages of China foretold that "China will be destroyed by a woman." The prophecy is approaching fulfillment.
    FROM: London Times China Correspondent, (None), Article, Australia
  • IN: The Last Empress (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: One of the ancient sages of China foretold that "China will be destroyed by a woman." The prophecy is approaching fulfillment.
    FROM: London Times China Correspondent, (None), Article, Australia
• Charles Denby (2)
  • IN: Empress Orchid (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: [Tzu Hsi] has shown herself to be benevolent and economical. Her private character has been spotless.
    FROM: American envoy to China, (1898), Conversation, US
  • IN: The Last Empress (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: [Tzu Hsi] has shown herself to be benevolent and economical. Her private character has been spotless.
    FROM: American envoy to China, (None), NULL, US