Name: Empress Dowager Cixi
SKU: 47237520
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Author: Jung Chang
ISBN: 9780099532392

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Jung Chang

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Vintage

Year

2014

Language

English

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9780099532392

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9780099532392

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Empress Dowager Cixi

Jung Chang (Author) · Vintage · Paperback

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Synopsis "Empress Dowager Cixi "

This is from the bestselling author of Wild Swans and Mao: The Unknown Story. 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.

Jung Chang

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Jung Chang is a British writer born in China who currently resides in London. Internationally known for her family autobiography Wild Swans, she has sold more than 10 million copies worldwide, but it is banned in mainland China.

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