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

Categorie	Geschiedenis Azië
Boeknummer	#354967-ZD1
Titel	The Dragon Empress: Life and Times of Tz'u-hsi 1835-1908: Empress Dowager of China
Auteur	Warner, Marina
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	New York, NY : Vintage
Jaar van uitgave	1993
ISBN10	0099165910
ISBN13	9780099165910
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, small 8vo.
Samenvatting	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.
Pagina's	247
Conditie	Goed — Edges browned.
Prijs	€ 8,00

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