The Dragon Empress

The Dragon Empress
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Publisher : Random House
Total Pages : 291
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ISBN-10 : 9781448103164
ISBN-13 : 1448103169
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Book Synopsis The Dragon Empress by : Marina Warner

Download or read book The Dragon Empress written by Marina Warner and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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