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Author | : X. L. Woo |
Publisher | : Algora Publishing |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0875861660 |
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In all the history of China, only two women ever conquered and held the heights of power. Both enjoyed long reigns characterized by ruthless intrigue; they maintained an iron grip at the center while the vast country was torn by rebellions and caught up i.
Author | : Katharine Augusta Carl |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : 0710302185 |
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First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : Katharine Augusta Carl |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Sir Edmund Backhouse |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 622 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Katharine Augusta Carl |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Edmund Trelawney Backhouse (Sir).) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 614 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Sterling Seagrave |
Publisher | : Alfred A. Knopf |
Total Pages | : 648 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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"The last empress of China--Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi (1835-1908)--is remembered as one of history's monsters, an iron-willed concubine who, after usurping power in 1861, ruled from the Dragon Throne for half a century. Her reign, in the aftermath of the Opium Wars and through the Boxer Rebellion until the collapse of the 2,000-year-old empire, has traditionally been seen as one of murder, poison, and intrigue. But the wicked image is false." "In 1974, to the dismay of scholars, Sir Edmund Backhouse--the biographer most responsible for the widespread vision of Tzu Hsi as monster--was revealed to be a con man. And now the author of the celebrated best-seller The Soong Dynasty has undertaken the first complete reappraisal of the empress--exposing Backhouse's writings about her as a major hoax and forgery, and establishing that the most important Western correspondent in Peking during her reign--Dr. George Morrison of the London Times--kept a secret diary contradicting his own dispatches about Tzu Hsi." "Drawing on many unpublished or long-overlooked contemporary sources, Sterling Seagrave shows us Tzu Hsi as a complex woman whose desperate--though often misguided--efforts to hold her country together take on a different coloration in the context of unrelenting foreign attempts to colonize and tear it apart. Far from being all-powerful, she was actually a hostage of vengeful Manchu princes who were using her in a power struggle against both Chinese reformers and foreign interference." "Here at last is an authentic portrait of this fascinating historical figure, as well as insight into the Western craving to believe in a sinister, dragon-haunted Orient. Dragon Lady is at once a compelling biography and the equally compelling story of how a myth was contrived, how it endured, and how, ultimately, the truth has emerged."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author | : Sarah Pike Conger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : J.O.P. BLAND AND E. BACKHOUSE |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 598 |
Release | : 1910 |
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Author | : Philip Walsingham Sergeant |
Publisher | : London : Hutchinson |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : |
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