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Dragon lady :

Seagrave, Sterling.

Dragon lady : the life and legend of the last empress of China / by Sterling Seagrave ; with the collaboration of Peggy Seagrave. - 1st Vintage Books ed. - New York : Vintage Books, 1993. - xv, 601 p. : maps ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [563]-576) and index.

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.

0679733698 (pbk.) 9780679733690 (pbk.)

92050582


Cixi, Empress dowager of China, 1835-1908.


Empresses--China--Biography.

Geschichte China Kaiserin

DS763.63.T96 / S43 1993

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