Meeting the Sun
On 15 September 1872, a young Mongol girl was chosen from a number of candidates to be wife and Empress to the seventeen-year old Tongzhi Emperor of China. She was Xiaozheyi, and was well-educated, attractive, and displayed a talent for poetry, music and art. The forthcoming nuptials set the International Settlements abuzz with excitement, and such was the interest in Europe that one of the leading British newspapers of the time, The Illustrated London News, decided to send a correspondent to China specifically to report on the spectacle. The man chosen was WILLIAM SIMPSON, who had already achieved some fame as a corres…
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- ISBN: 978-1-389-59742-8
- EAN: 9781389597428
- Produktnummer: 24450364
- Verlag: Blurb
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 468 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.5 cm 672 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 672
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