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

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 last empress of China--Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi (1835-1908)--is remembered as one of history's monsters, an iron-willed concubine who, after usurping power in 1861, ruled from the Dragon Throne for half a century. Her reign, in the aftermath of...

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