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portada Empress Dowager Cixi
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Year
2014
Language
English
Pages
1
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780099532392
ISBN13
9780099532392
Edition No.
1

Empress Dowager Cixi

Jung Chang (Author) · Vintage · Paperback

Empress Dowager Cixi - Jung Chang

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Synopsis "Empress Dowager Cixi"

This is from the bestselling author of Wild Swans and Mao: The Unknown Story. In 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 and also 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.

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