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

Seagrave, Sterling

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ISBN 10: 0679733698 ISBN 13: 9780679733690

Casa editrice: Vintage, 1993

Riassunto

The author of 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.

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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

L'autore:

Sterling Seagrave grew up in Asia on the Burma–China border. Seagrave spent many years as an investigative reporter in Asia and had his writing published in the Washington Post, Time, Life, and many other publications. He is the author of the bestselling The Soong Dynasty, which was a top choice of the Book of the Month Club. His other books include Yellow Rain: Journey Through the Terror of Chemical Warfare and Red Sky in the Morning, which he cowrote with his wife, Peggy, who is his longtime collaborator. They live in France.

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• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0679733698
• ISBN 13: 9780679733690
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 624