by Sterling Seagrave, Peggy Seagrave · Papermac · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780333593912
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«Dragon Lady» is the biography by Sterling Seagrave and Peggy Seagrave, published by Papermac in paperback (620 pages, in English).
Biography of Tzu Hsi (Cixi), the last empress of China, reconstructing her rise from the harem to the imperial throne and her long exercise of power. The authors contrast the legend that presents her as an ambitious and cruel concubine with historical facts, and trace a portrait of the nineteenth-century Chinese court and of a ruler who marked the end of the empire.
The work was originally published in 1992 by Macmillan London; this Papermac edition is from 1993. Empress Cixi (Tzu Hsi) lived between 1835 and 1908; the book includes an index and bibliography.
A read for those interested in Chinese history and in biographies of great female political figures.
Sterling Seagrave was an American historian. He was the author of numerous books which address unofficial and clandestine aspects of the 20th-century political history of countries in the Far East.
