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Empress Dowager Cixi The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
by Jung Chang
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0224087436
- ISBN 13
- 9780224087438
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape, 2013. Hb, xv + 436pp, b/w photos. Good+ with clean contents in a VG dj, slight tan to edge of page block. Biography of the Chinese Empress Dowager Cixi ( 1835-1908) who ruled for several decades . Using recently available documents and fresh research, the author overturns the conventional view of Cixi as a " die-hard conservative and cruel despot" and describes how she fought numerous obstacles to try to bring change to China.. Hard Cover.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Empress Dowager Cixi The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
- Author
- Jung Chang
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- ISBN 10
- 0224087436
- ISBN 13
- 9780224087438
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2013
- Keywords
- biography, history, chinese history, qing empire, empress cixi, modern china, 19th century china, history china
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