This drama in four acts imagines a Chinese empire still split by the old wound of the Manchu conquest. In the south an empress of the ancient Ming line leads a rising against the Tartar emperor in Peking, and when war brings the two rulers face to face, love and duty pull against each other amid palaces, ramparts and funeral pyres.
A lavish orientalist spectacle by two French writers steeped in the East, translated for the stage in 1913. Download the free EPUB.