Marina Warner
Vintage Publishing
e druk, 1993
9780099165910
The Dragon Empress
Life and Times of Tz'u-hsi 1835-1908 Empress Dowager of China
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Paperback, 272 blz.
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EN
Vintage Publishing |
1993
ISBN13: 9780099165910
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Levertijd ongeveer 16 werkdagen
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Samenvatting
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. 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.