Author: Sir Backhouse, Edmund

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• Anchee Min (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