Dragon Lady: The Life and Legend of the Last Empress of China
Sterling Seagrave
601 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 0679402306
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Language: English
Publish: 705049200000
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.