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THE DRAGON EMPRESS
LIFE AND TIMES OF TZ'U-HSI 1835-1908 EMPRESS DOWAGER OF CHINA |
| By: |
Marina Warner |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£9.38 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1448103169 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781448103164 |
| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
29 February, 2012 |
| Pages: |
272 |
| Description: |
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. This title presents her portrait. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
1 Illustrations, unspecified |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Vintage Digital |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |