Anchee Min

Anchee Min is a Chinese-American author who lives in San Francisco and Shanghai. She is best known for the memoirs Red Azalea and its follow-up, The Cooked Seed, along with six historical novels such as Empress Orchid. Her fiction often centers on strong women, including Jiang Qing, the wife of Mao Zedong, and Empress Dowager Cixi.