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Beschreibung
From 1861 to 1908 a woman the Empress Dowager Tz'u-hsi born the daughter of a minor mandarin held the supreme power in China. Opportunistic ruthless malicious she ruled over four hundred million people. Marina Warner's biography lays bare her complex personality: her extreme conventionalism; her hatred of "foreigners"; her passion for power and intrigue; her vanity and her delight in ritual; her extravagance and corruption and her love of gardens painting and the theatre. THE DRAGON EMPRESS also portrays a China in rapid decline as poverty civil war and foreign exploitation and invasion brought about the fall of the Ch'ing dynasty.
From 1861 to 1908 a woman the Empress Dowager Tz'u-hsi born the daughter of a minor mandarin held the supreme power in China. Opportunistic ruthless malicious she ruled over four hundred million people. Marina Warner's biography lays bare her complex personality: her extreme conventionalism; her hatred of "foreigners"; her passion for power and intrigue; her vanity and her delight in ritual; her extravagance and corruption and her love of gardens painting and the theatre. THE DRAGON EMPRESS also portrays a China in rapid decline as poverty civil war and foreign exploitation and invasion brought about the fall of the Ch'ing dynasty.
Über den Autor
Marina Warner
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 1993
Genre: Biographien, Importe
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780099165910
ISBN-10: 0099165910
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Warner, Marina
Hersteller: Vintage
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 198 x 129 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Marina Warner
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.07.1993
Gewicht: 0,328 kg
Artikel-ID: 131812839