Anyone read Empress Orchid by Anchee Min?

I have just finished this book and having for the most part enjoyed it, I am left very frustrated with the ending. What was all that about with An-te-hai's overcoat? Did he leave it there for a reason? Earlier in the book Orchid said that An-te-hai was obsessed with what happened between a man and a woman and this would be his downfall, was she now going to punish him? I dont understand! Anyone else read the book?

Anyone read Empress Orchid by Anchee Min?
I read the book and too enjoyed it. I personally preferred her own memoirs called Red Azalea about her time as an operatic actress in Madame Mao's operas. I think the thing with the overcoat was that he was allowing her to have "relations" with the soldier guy on her dead husband's grave (or so I understood it).
Reply:I agree with Carrie, Red Azaela was a much better book, I wasn't impressed at all with this offering. I think the overcoat was his way of saying ok I approve.
Reply:i read it ages ago i think he left his overcoat there so that if she decided not to come out she would be comfortable (she was his head of house and an empress after all) but the way the book started and ended didn't tally up, it didn't fully explain how she got the throne after her son died or why she had to choose her replacement