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The Dragon Empress

By Marina Warner

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The Dragon Empress

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
272
Release Date:
1993-07-15
Publication Date:
1993-07-15
Publisher:
Vintage
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0099165910
ISBN13:
9780099165910
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
0
Weight:
328 g
Height:
129 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
16 cm
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