My Life as Emperor

Journeys back in time to imperial China, to the court of a child emperor as it follows the life of a naive fourteen-year-old prince who finds himself unexpectedly named as emperor of an entire nation and is shaped by the power, cruelty, decadence, and intrigues of the royal court. By the author of Raise the Red Lantern.

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  China · China

  Deliberately vague fictional Chinese empire; Su Tong set it in no specific era but closes by naming Changzhou, Jiangsu a
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  Changzhou · China

  Fictional imperial capital of the Xie Empire (author closes by locating it in Changzhou, Jiangsu) where 14-year-old Prin
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