The Dragon Empress: Life and Times of Tz'u-hsi 1835-1908 Empress Dowager of China - Marina Warner - Books - Vintage Publishing - 9780099165910 - July 15, 1993
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The Dragon Empress: Life and Times of Tz'u-hsi 1835-1908 Empress Dowager of China

Marina Warner

The Dragon Empress: Life and Times of Tz'u-hsi 1835-1908 Empress Dowager of China

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.


272 pages, 1

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released July 15, 1993
ISBN13 9780099165910
Publishers Vintage Publishing
Pages 272
Dimensions 130 × 199 × 21 mm   ·   198 g

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