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Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang (Paperback, 2014)

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From the bestselling author of Wild Swans and Mao- The Unknown Story, the extraordinary story of the woman who single-handedly dragged China into the modern age Discover the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age, from the bestselling author of Wild Swans 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 and also 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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Publisher
Vintage Publishing
ISBN-13
9780099532392
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Book Title
Empress Dowager Cixi: the Concubine Who Launched Modern China
Author
Jung Chang
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Politics, History
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
528 Pages

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198mm
Item Width
129mm
Item Weight
463g

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Jung Chang
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United Kingdom

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