Imperial Woman by Pearl S. Buck - Paperback USED Classics

The bionovel of Tzu Hsi, the last reigning Empress of China. At seventeen, the remarkable girl was literally picked out of a hat, selected by the Emperor from a roomfull of young beauties, to become one of more than a hundred royal concubines. In little more than a year, she was on her way to supreme power, to become absolute ruler of more people than any emperor in history ever dreamed of reigning over.