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THE DRAGON EMPRESS IBD

VINTAGE
07 / 1993
9780099165910
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Sinopsis

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.

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