Empress Dowager Cixi (eBook, ePUB)
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| Partner: | buecher.de |
| Hersteller: | Random House (Chang, Jung) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
From the bestselling author of Wild Swans and Mao: The Unknown Story In 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 Times Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Biography Prize
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