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Dragon Lady: The Life and Legend of the Last Empress of China - Couverture souple

Seagrave, Sterling

 
9780679733690: Dragon Lady: The Life and Legend of the Last Empress of China
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0679733698 ISBN 13 : 9780679733690
Editeur : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1993

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

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.

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Éditeur
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Date d'édition
1993
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0679733698
ISBN 13 
9780679733690
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
623
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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