Empress dowager cixi

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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 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 Montefiore







'Truly authoritative' New York Times







'Wonderful' Sunday Times







Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Biography Prize

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Taal: en

Bindwijze: E-book

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 26 september 2013

Aantal pagina's: 464

Ebook Formaat: Adobe ePub

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Originele titel: Empress Dowager Cixi

Hoofdauteur: Jung Chang

Hoofduitgeverij: Vintage Digital

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