The Dragon Empress: Life and Times of Tz'u-Hsi, Empress Dowager of China, 1835-1908 by Marina Warner

The Dragon Empress: Life and Times of Tz'u-Hsi, Empress Dowager of China, 1835-1908

Marina Warner

247 pages • first pub 1972 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative mysterious tense slow-paced
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From 1861 to 1908 a woman - the Empress Dowager Tz'u-hsi, born the daughter of a minor mandarin - held the supreme power in China. Opportunist, ruthless, malicious, she ruled over 400 million people. This biography explores her complex personality...

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