Imperial Masquerade - The Legend of Princess Der Ling

Imperial Masquerade is the first biography of one of the twentieth centurys most intriguing cross-cultural personalities.Daughter of a Manchu aristocrat, granddaughter of a Boston merchant, educated like a boy in the Confucian classics, a baptized Catholic blessed by the hand of Pope Leo XIII, a woman who donned chic Western fashions in China and her ceremonial court robes in the United States, and wife of an American soldier of fortune, Princess Der Ling was a fascinating human battleground of warring identities. A resident of Sidney, British Columbia, Grant Hayter-Menzies has served as art and music critic for newspapers and magazines fin the U.S. and Canada.

About the author

A resident of Sidney, British Columbia, Grant Hayter-Menzies has served as art and music critic for newspapers and magazines from the U.S. Pacific Northwest to the Eastern seaboard and in Western Canada. He is a former board member of the Northwest China Council in Portland, Oregon. Grant's first book, a long-awaited biography of American stage and screen comedienne Charlotte Greenwood, was published by McFarland & Company in May 2007.

Product details

• Authors: Grant Hayter-Menzies, Grant/ Crossley Hayter-menzies
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 22
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2008
• EAN: 9789622098817
• ISBN: 978-962-209-881-7
• No. of pages: 389
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 38 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous