text Empress Dowager Cixi : the concubine who launched modern China
- Summary
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A portrait of the nineteenth-century empress covers the coup that made her regent after her father's death, her defiance of centuries of traditions and formalities, and her role in introducing Western political ideas and technologies.
- Contents
- I. The imperial concubine in stormy times (1835-1861) -- Concubine to an emperor (1835-56) -- From the Opium War to the burning of the old Summer Palace (1839-60) -- Emperor Xianfeng dies (1860-61) -- The coup that changed China (1861) -- II. Reig... Read more
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- Description
- xiii, 436 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
- Publisher
- Random House Inc 2013
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| Woodmere (Main Branch) | 921 CIXI, EMPRESS CHA in Adult Non-fiction | Available |
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| TADL-WOOD | 921 CIXI, EMPRESS CHA in Adult Non-fiction | Available |
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