Empress Dowager Cixi The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

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

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Jung Chang, Chang Jung, Jung Chang
• Edition: Vintage UK
• Contenu: Livre
• Forme du produit: Livre de poche
• Date de parution: 31.07.2014
• Catégorie: Littérature spécialisée; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire > Général, dictionnaires
• EAN: 9780099532392
• ISBN: 978-0-09-953239-2
• Nombre de pages: 528
• Dimensions (emballage): 12,9 x 19,8 x 3,3 cm
• Thème: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Catégories: Chinesische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.), China, History, Art History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: historical, political & military, biography, Wild Swans, HISTORY / Asia / China, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, real life, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Historiography, Political leaders & leadership, Diplomacy, Asian History, Xi Jingping, How to cook, Black History, Biography: historical, political and military, Xiaolu Guo, Political leaders and leadership, c 1900 to c 1909, Black Feminism, Edward Rutherfurd China, Anna Huang, world peace, biographies and autobiographies, the world at war, political biographies, the last woman, china the cook, the silk roads peter frankopan, the china study', china leaders, sun tzu the art of war, chinese cook books, a good woman, once upon a time in the east, the art of war sun tzu, china edward rutherfurd, war and peace and war, chinaman shehan karunatilaka