Dragon Lady: The Life and Legend of the Last Empress of China by Sterling Seagrave

Dragon Lady: The Life and Legend of the Last Empress of China

Sterling Seagrave

601 pages first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
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The author of The Soong Dynasty gives us our most vivid and reliable biography yet of the Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, remembered through the exaggeration and falsehood of legend as the ruthless Manchu concubine who seduced and murdered her way to the...

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