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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.…mehr

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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.
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Marina Warner