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Empress Dowager Cixi

By Jung Chang

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Empress Dowager Cixi

By Jung Chang

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In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in Chinese history - brought a medieval empire into the modern age. Under her, the ancient country attained virtually all the attributes of a modern state and it was she who abolished gruesome punishments like 'death by a thousand cuts' and put an end to foot-binding. Jung Chang comprehensively overturns the conventional view of Cixi as a diehard conservative and cruel despot and also takes the reader into the depths of her splendid Summer Palace and the harem of Beijing's Forbidden City, where she lived surrounded by eunuchs - with one of whom she fell in love, with tragic consequences. Packed with drama, fast-paced and gripping, it is both a panoramic depiction of the birth of modern China and an intimate portrait of a woman: as the concubine to a monarch, as the absolute ruler of a third of the world's population, and as a unique stateswoman.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
528
Release Date:
2014-07-03
Publication Date:
2014-07-03
Publisher:
Random House UK Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0099532395
ISBN13:
9780099532392
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
468 g
Height:
128 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
38 cm

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