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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.
Detail About The Dragon Empress PDF
- Author : Marina Warner
- Publisher : Random House
- Genre : Biography & Autobiography
- Total Pages : 291 pages
- ISBN : 1448103169
- Release Date : 29 February 2012
- PDF File Size : 36,6 Mb
- Language : English
- Rating : 4/5 from 21 reviews
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