The Empress and Mrs. Conger: The Uncommon Friendship of Two Women and Two Worlds - Rilegato

Hayter-Menzies, Grant

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ISBN 10: 9888083007 ISBN 13: 9789888083008

Casa editrice: Hong Kong Univ Pr, 2011

Riassunto

The story of two women from worlds that could not seem farther apart—imperial China and the American Midwest—who found common ground before and after one of the greatest clashes between East and West, the fifty-five-day siege of the Beijing foreign legations known as the Boxer Uprising. Using diaries, letters and untapped sources, The Empress and Mrs. Conger traces the parallel lives of the Empress Dowager Cixi and American diplomat’s wife Sarah Pike Conger, which converged to alter their perspectives of each other and each other's worlds.

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L'autore:

Grant Hayter-Menzies's first book for Hong Kong University Press was Imperial Masquerade The Legend of Princess Der Ling. He is also the biographer of stage and screen stars Charlotte Greenwood and Billie Burke. He lives in Sidney, British Columbia, where he is working on a book about Pauline Benton, the American-born Chinese shadow theater master.

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Book by Hayter Grant

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• Editore: Hong Kong Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 9888083007
• ISBN 13: 9789888083008
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 325