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THE DRAGON EMPRESS
LIFE AND TIMES OF TZ'U-HSI 1835-1908 EMPRESS DOWAGER OF CHINA |
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Marina Warner |
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ISBN 10: |
0099165910 |
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9780099165910 |
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VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
Pub. date: |
15 July, 1993 |
Pages: |
272 |
Description: |
A biography of the Empress Dowager Tz'u-hsi, who held the supreme power in China from 1861 to 1908. It explores her complex personality and also portrays a country 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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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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UK |
Imprint: |
Vintage |
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