A Mulher Imperial

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A vida de uma mulher notável, uma rica e autêntica história de luxúria e intriga, paixão e crueldade que em pouco mais de um ano vai de concubina ao caminho do poder supremo. |...| Imperial Woman is a novel by Pearl S. Buck first published in 1956. A fictionalized biography of Ci-xi (Tz'u Hsi in Wade–Giles), who was a concubine of the Xianfeng Emperor and on his death became the de facto head of the Qing dynasty until her death in 1908 (before which the novel ends).The story of Tzu Hsi is the st