Empress Dowager Cixi
The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
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 - w…
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- ISBN: 978-0-09-953239-2
- EAN: 9780099532392
- Produktnummer: 15863971
- Verlag: Random House UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 528 S.
- Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
- Masse: H19.8 cm x B12.8 cm x D3.8 cm 476 g
- Gewicht: 476
Über den Autor
Jung Chang is the best-selling author of Wild Swans (1991, which the Asian Wall Street Journal called the most read book about China), and Mao: The Unknown Story (2005, with Jon Halliday), which was described by Time Magazine as 'an atom bomb of a book'. Her books have been translated into more than 40 languages and sold more than 15 million copies outside mainland China where they are both banned.. She was born in China in 1952, and came to Britain in 1978. She lives in London.
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