The Dragon Empress: Life And Times Of Tz'U-Hsi 1835-1908 Empress Dowager Of China

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
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• | 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