Dragon lady : the life and legend of the last empress of China / by Sterling Seagrave ; with the collaboration of Peggy Seagrave.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Vintage Books, 1993.Edition: 1st Vintage Books edDescription: xv, 601 p. : maps ; 21 cmISBN:- 0679733698 (pbk.)
- 9780679733690 (pbk.)
- B 20
- DS763.63.T96 S43 1993
- 289.2
- 222.06
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Buch | Deutsche Schule Tokyo Yokohama Geschichte | En SEA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | Geschichte Asien | 2013-773 |
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [563]-576) and index.
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