Dragon Lady: The Life and Legend of the Last Empress of China - Rilegato

Seagrave, Sterling; Seagrave, Peggy

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0679402306 ISBN 13: 9780679402305

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1992

Riassunto

Reappraises the initial depiction of China's last empress--the Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi--which was fabricated by two English travelers and portrays a strong, complex woman struggling to keep her country from unraveling. 40,000 first printing. $40,000 ad/promo.

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Recensione:

"An all-out revisionist assault on the established perception of Tzu Hsi...Seagrave provides as sad and outrageous a record of imperialism as can be found anywhere in the world."
--The San Francisco Chronicle
From the Trade Paperback edition.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

f The Soong Dynasty gives us our most vivid and reliable biography yet of the Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, remembered through the exaggeration and falsehood of legend as the ruthless Manchu concubine who seduced and murdered her way to the Chinese throne in 1861.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

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• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0679402306
• ISBN 13: 9780679402305
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 601