Author: WARNER, MARINA (1946- )
Title: The dragon empress : life and times of Tz'u-hsi, 1835-1908, Empress dowager of China
Description: London : History Book Club 1972. History Book Club Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine. very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw. now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and strong.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 281 pages; Physical description: 271p. : ill. (some col). maps. plans. ports. (some col) ; 26cm. Subjects: Ci xi. Empress Dowager of China. 1835-1908 -- Biography -- China -- Social life -- History -- 19th century -- Early 20th century. Summary: From 1861 to 1908 a woman. the Empress Dowager Tz'u-hsi. born the daughter of a minor mandarin. held the supreme power in China. Opportunistic. ruthless. malicious. she ruled over four hundred million people. Marina Warner's biography lays bare her complex personality: her extreme conventionalism; her hatred of 'foreigners'; her passion for power and intrigue; her vanity and her delight in ritual; her extravagance and corruption and her love of gardens. painting and the theatre. THE DRAGON EMPRESS also portrays a China in rapid decline as poverty. civil war and foreign exploitation and invasion brought about the fall of the Ch'ing dynasty.Weight in Kg appr.:

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