Two Years in the Forbidden City (A Luncheon With the Empress-An Audience With the Empress)
CHAPTER FOUR—A LUNCHEON WITH THE EMPRESS WHEN we had finished drinking tea, she told us to go with her into the next room, where the tables had been prepared for lunch, and I wondered if she had any room for lunch, after all that she had just eaten, but I soon found out. As soon […]