"In My Last Empress, Da Chen pushes the reader into the strangest corners of the human heart, with a style bathed in dark glamour. Like a fan opening, vane by mysterious vane." -Janet Fitch, New York Times bestselling author
of White Oleander and Paint It Black
"Intoxicating and consistently surprising... Simultaneously a timeless love story and a dazzling tale of dangerous infatuation, My Last Empress brings the reader along on a sensual and astounding journey of self-discovery and cultural revelation." -Ravi Shankar, prizewinning poet and founding editor of Drunken Boat