Dragon Empress : Life and Times of Tz'u-hsi 1835-1908 Empress Dowager of China
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Format
Paperback / softback
ISBN-10
0099165910
ISBN-13
9780099165910
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Imprint
Vintage
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 15th, 1993
Print length
272 Pages
Weight
198 grams
Dimensions
19.90 x 13.00 x 2.10 cms
Product Classification:
c 1500 onwards to present dayBiography: historical, political & militaryBiography: royaltyBiography: historical, political and militaryBiography: royaltyAsian historyModern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900Genealogy, heraldry, names & honoursHistoryAsian historyGenealogy, heraldry, names and honours
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From 1861 to 1908 a woman, the Empress Dowager Tz'u-hsi, born the daughter of a minor mandarin, held the supreme power in China. THE DRAGON EMPRESS also portrays a China in rapid decline as poverty, civil war and foreign exploitation and invasion brought about the fall of the Ch'ing dynasty.
From 1861 to 1908 a woman, the Empress Dowager Tz''u-hsi, born the daughter of a minor mandarin, held the supreme power in China. Opportunistic, ruthless, malicious, she ruled over four hundred million people. Marina Warner''s biography lays bare her complex personality: her extreme conventionalism; her hatred of "foreigners"; her passion for power and intrigue; her vanity and her delight in ritual; her extravagance and corruption and her love of gardens, painting and the theatre. THE DRAGON EMPRESS also portrays a China in rapid decline as poverty, civil war and foreign exploitation and invasion brought about the fall of the Ch''ing dynasty.
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