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Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
de Chang, Jung
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0307357546
- ISBN 13
- 9780307357540
- Librería
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Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
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Sobre este artículo
Toronto: Random House Canada. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2013. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0307357546 . DJ and boards show very light shelf wear, previous dealers stamp on back pastedown, remainder marks on top and bottom page edges. ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 436 pages; "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." .
Sinopsis
JUNG CHANG was born in Sichuan Province, China, in 1952. She was a Red Guard briefly at the age of fourteen and then worked as a peasant, a "barefoot doctor," a steelworker, and an electrician before becoming an English-language student and, later, an assistant lecturer at Sichuan University. She left China for Britain in 1978 and was subsequently awarded a scholarship by York University, where she obtained a PhD in linguistics in 1982, the first person from the People's Republic of China to receive a doctorate from a British university.
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- Librería
- Ainsworth Books
(CA)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 21535
- Título
- Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
- Autor
- Chang, Jung
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edición
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0307357546
- ISBN 13
- 9780307357540
- Editorial
- Random House Canada
- Lugar de publicación
- Toronto
- Fecha de publicación
- 2013
- Palabras clave
- 0307357546, Empress, boxer rebellion, China
- Catálogos del vendedor
- History; Asia; ROYALTY;
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Chilliwack, British Columbia
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