Dragon Lady
Sterling Seagrave
None pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 0517117991
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Language: English
Publish: 770194800000
19th Century20th CenturyAsiaAsian LiteratureBiographyBiography MemoirChinaHistoricalHistoryNonfiction
The author of The Soong Dynasty gives us our most vivid and reliable biography yet of the Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, remembered through the exaggeration and falsehood of legend as the ruthless Manchu concubine who seduced and murdered her way to the Chinese throne in 1861.
From the Trade Paperback edition.