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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. Opportunistic, ruthless, malicious, she ruled over four hundred million people. Marina Warner's biography lays bare her complex personality: her extreme conventionalism; her hatred of "foreigners"; her passion for power and intrigue; her vanity and her delight in ritual; her extravagance and corruption and her love of gardens, painting and the theatre. 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.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History History: specific events & topics

• Full title: Dragon Empress
• Subtitle: Life and Times of Tz'u-hsi 1835-1908 Empress Dowager of China
• Author: Marina Warner
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• EAN: 9780099165910
• ISBN: 0099165910
• ID: 04491571
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Weight: 198 g
• Dimensions: 199 × 130 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. July 1993

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