Dragon Lady

Dragon Lady

Einband:
Taschenbuch
EAN:
9780679733690
Untertitel:
The Life and Legend of the Last Empress of China
Genre:
Übrige Sachbücher & Sonstiges
Autor:
Sterling Seagrave
Herausgeber:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Anzahl Seiten:
624
Erscheinungsdatum:
31.08.1993
ISBN:
0679733698

Zusatztext "An all-out revisionist assault on the established perception of Tzu Hsi...Seagrave provides as sad and outrageous a record of imperialism as can be found anywhere in the world." --The San Francisco Chronicle Informationen zum Autor Sterling Seagrave grew up in Asia on the BurmaChina border. Seagrave spent many years as an investigative reporter in Asia and had his writing published in the Washington Post , Time , Life , and many other publications. He is the author of the bestselling The Soong Dynasty , which was a top choice of the Book of the Month Club. His other books include Yellow Rain: Journey Through the Terror of Chemical Warfare and Red Sky in the Morning , which he cowrote with his wife, Peggy, who is his longtime collaborator. They live in France. Klappentext 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 Chinese throne in 1861. Zusammenfassung 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 Chinese throne in 1861.

Autorentext
Sterling Seagrave grew up in Asia on the Burma–China border. Seagrave spent many years as an investigative reporter in Asia and had his writing published in the Washington Post, Time, Life, and many other publications. He is the author of the bestselling The Soong Dynasty, which was a top choice of the Book of the Month Club. His other books include Yellow Rain: Journey Through the Terror of Chemical Warfare and Red Sky in the Morning, which he cowrote with his wife, Peggy, who is his longtime collaborator. They live in France.

Klappentext
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 Chinese throne in 1861.


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