| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xv, 601 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 563-576) and index. |
| Contents |
Flowers in the back garden -- Lady Yehenara -- Foreign devils -- Palace coup -- Behind a gauze curtain -- Two men on a horse -- Life in a yellow mist -- Suicide of a phoenix -- "Our hart" -- Hostage to etiquette -- New ironhats -- Wild fox -- Puppet show -- Betrayal -- Fugitive -- Poisoned pen -- Sly pornographer -- Weed people -- Something wicked this way comes -- Mad, rotten scheme -- Siege of Peking -- Chinese takeaway -- Forked tongue -- Dragons flee -- "That odious woman" -- Hunting snipe -- Hatching the dragon lady -- Dynasty's end. |
| Subject |
Cixi, Empress dowager of China, 1835-1908.
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Empresses -- China -- Biography.
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| Added Author |
Seagrave, Peggy.
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| ISBN |
0679402306: $30.00 ($37.50 Canada) |
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