Empress Dowager Cixi - Jung Chang

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

Detay Bilgileri
Dil	İngilizce
Basım Tarihi	2014
Yazar	Jung Chang
Sayfa Sayısı	304
Kağıt	2. Hamur Kağıt
Kapak	Karton
Basım Yeri	İngiltere
Baskı Sayısı	1
Ebatlar (YxG)	14x20 cm
Isbn No	9780099532392