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Wednesday, November 12, 2025
This one is good--the girl from the North and the eunuch. Can't say more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4a7UY3_8rI
There have been Dowager Empresses who fell in love with eunuchs, for e.g
Dowager Empress CiXi (Su zi spelling?) with truly tragic consequences.
Qing Dynasty--not Qin Dynasty.
Read Anchee Min--Empress Orchid+ non fiction--CiXi by Jung Chang.
I saw both these authors at Politics and Prose--guess whose writing I liked better.
Hint: It depends on what I think more important and what I write most often.
K.M.Kaung.
11-11-2025
This one is good--the girl from the North and the eunuch. Can't say more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4a7UY3_8rI There have been Dowager Empresses who fell in love with eunuchs, for e.g Dowager Empress CiXi...
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