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Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China By Jung
Chang (Paperback, 2014)
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 MontefioreTruly authoritative' New York TimesWonderful' Sunday TimesShortlisted for the James Tait Black Biography Prize
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 MontefioreTruly authoritative' New York TimesWonderful' Sunday TimesShortlisted for the James Tait Black Biography Prize
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