ISBN: 9781448191420

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 describ… More...

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**; EPUB; Biography > Biography: general > Biography: historical, political & military, Random House<

ISBN: 9781448191420

From the bestselling author of Wild Swans and Mao: The Unknown StoryIn this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi – the most important woman in… More...

From the bestselling author of Wild Swans and Mao: The Unknown StoryIn 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 andalso 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 TimesShortlisted for the James Tait Black Biography Prize; EPUB; Biography > Biography: general > Biography: historical, political & military, Elsevier Health Sciences<

2013, ISBN: 9781448191420

The Concubine Who Launched Modern China, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), Auflage, Discover the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age, from the bestselling … More...

The Concubine Who Launched Modern China, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), Auflage, 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**, [PU: Random House], Seiten: 528, [ED: 1], Random House, 2013<

ISBN: 9781448191420

Empress Dowager Cixi - The Concubine Who Launched Modern China: ab 9.49 € eBooks > Biographien & Autobiographien Random House UK Ltd eBook als epub, Random House UK Ltd

2013, ISBN: 9781448191420

The Concubine Who Launched Modern China, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), Auflage, [PU: Random House], [ED: 1], Random House, 2013