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Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

Jung Chang
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Description:From the bestselling author of Wild Swans and Mao: The Unknown StoryIn 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 andalso 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.Packed with drama, fast-paced and gripping, it is both a panoramic depiction of the birth of modern China and an intimate portrait of a woman: as the concubine to a monarch, as the absolute ruler of a third of the world’s population, and as a unique stateswoman.‘Powerful’ Simon Sebag Montefiore‘Truly authoritative’ New York Times‘Wonderful’ Sunday TimesShortlisted for the James Tait Black Biography PrizeWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China. To get started finding Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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365
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Release
2013
ISBN
0099532395

Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

Jung Chang
4.4/5 (1290744 ratings)
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Description: From the bestselling author of Wild Swans and Mao: The Unknown StoryIn 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 andalso 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.Packed with drama, fast-paced and gripping, it is both a panoramic depiction of the birth of modern China and an intimate portrait of a woman: as the concubine to a monarch, as the absolute ruler of a third of the world’s population, and as a unique stateswoman.‘Powerful’ Simon Sebag Montefiore‘Truly authoritative’ New York Times‘Wonderful’ Sunday TimesShortlisted for the James Tait Black Biography PrizeWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China. To get started finding Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages
365
Format
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Publisher
N/A
Release
2013
ISBN
0099532395

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