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Empress Dowager Cixi the concubine who launched modern China

In this ground-breaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi fought against monumental obstacles to change China. Under her the ancient country attained virtually all the attributes of a modern state: industries, railways, electricity, telegraph, and an army and navy with...

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Main Author: Chang, Jung, 1952-
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
Edition:First American edition.
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Cixi, > Empress dowager of China, > 1835-1908.
Empresses > China > Biography.
China > Politics and government > 19th century.
China > History > 1861-1912.
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Summary:In this ground-breaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi fought against monumental obstacles to change China. Under her the ancient country attained virtually all the attributes of a modern state: industries, railways, electricity, telegraph, and an army and navy with up-to-date weaponry.
Physical Description:xiii, 436 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-415) and index.
ISBN:9780307271600 (hardcover)
0307271609 (hardcover)
9780307456700 (pbk.)
0307456706 (pbk.)
Author Notes:Jung Chang was born in Yibin, Sichuan Province, China, in 1952. She left China for Britain in 1978 and obtained a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of York in 1982. She is the first person from the People¿s Republic of China to receive a doctorate from a British university. She lives in London with her husband, Jon Halliday, with whom she wrote Mao: The Unknown Story. Her non-fiction book, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, was a New York Times bestseller in 2014.

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