Chang, Jung
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
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- ISBN 13:
- 9780099532392
- author:
- Chang, Jung
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Vintage
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2014
- Pages:
- 528
- Dimensions:
- 8684 KB
- Genre:
- Biographies & Memoirs, Historical, Asia,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 5 working days
Description
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine who Launched Modern China
This groundbreaking biography reveals how one woman's rule transformed China into a modern state, acquiring industries, railways, cars, electricity, telephones, Western medicine, and a powerful army and navy.
Through meticulous research, Jung Chang sheds new light on the life of Cixi, who defied convention to shape China's destiny.
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