Overview
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.
- | By (Author): Marina Warner
- | Series:
- | Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- | Publication Date: Jul 15, 1993
- | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
- | Number of Pages: 272 pages
- | Language: Not available
- | Binding: Paperback|Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0099165910
- | ISBN-13: 9780099165910