Tuen, Slave and Empress

KATHLEEN GRAY NELSON
Illustrations by William M. Cary
NEW YORK COPYRIGHT BY E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY 31 West Twenty-third Street 1898

This story is founded upon facts in the life of the Empress-dowager of China, the mother of the present Emperor.
She was sold as a slave by her father to a renowned government official, who after a few years adopted her as his daughter, and afterwards presented her to the Emperor.
The Emperor was altogether charmed with the gift. In a few years the slave girl became the wife of the Emperor, second in rank only to the Empress. From this time she was a power at the Imperial Court. Her administrative ability in governmental affairs became invaluable to the Emperor.