Peter Greenaway: The Empress & the Eunuch

By Peter Greenaway

Greenaway transforms a historical love affair in an imperial court into a violent and tragic fairy tale

Peter Greenaway's (born 1942) script for an unreleased feature film tells of a 19th-century Chinese love affair and its consequences, based on the legend of Empress Dowager Cixi's affair with a eunuch in the Forbidden City.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 2381620117
• ISBN13: 9782381620114
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Dis Voir Editions
• Length: 128 Pages