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China Under the Empress Dowager

China Under the Empress Dowager - Paperback

by Backhouse Bland
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Availability:In StockContributor:Backhouse Bland, Derek Sandhaus (Foreword by)Publish date:2022-04-14Pages:552
Language:EnglishPublisher:Earnshaw Books LtdISBN-13:9789881866745ISBN-10:988186674XUPC:9789881866745Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Asia, HistoricalBook Topic:ChinaSize:8.00 x 5.60 x 1.50 inchesWeight:1.3514Product ID:SCXTVG6NKG

One of the most popular and controversial Chinese history books ever written, China under the Empress Dowager is also one of the best. Authors Bland and Backhouse take you inside the Forbidden City during the reign of Empress Dowager Cixi (1861-1908), a world of power-thirsty eunuchs, concubines and Mandarins, intrigue, bitter antagonism and ruthless reprisals. The book was unique for its time in its use of sometime controversial Chinese source materials. As entertaining as it is enlightening, the book that presaged the fall of the Qing dynasty is as readable today as it ever was.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Earnshaw Books LtdISBN-13:9789881866745ISBN-10:988186674XUPC:9789881866745Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Asia, HistoricalBook Topic:ChinaSize:8.00 x 5.60 x 1.50 inchesWeight:1.3514Product ID:SCXTVG6NKG
J. O. P. Bland served as China correspondent for the London Times from 1897 until he left China in 1910. Edmund Backhouse was a linguist, a scholar, and a translator, who worked for the British Foreign Service and the London Times. Derek Sandhaus is the chief editor of Earnshaw Books and the author of Tales of Old Hong Kong and Tales of Old Peking.
Publisher: Earnshaw Books Ltd

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Backhouse Bland, Derek Sandhaus (Foreword by)

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