Dragon Lady: The Life and Legend of the Last Empress of China

ISBN: 0679733698

Title: Dragon Lady: The Life and Legend of the Last Empress of China

Author: Sterling Seagrave

KDL Description:

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Reappraises the Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi and portrays a strong, complex woman struggling to keep her country from unraveling.

Amazon Description:

The author of The Soong Dynasty gives us our most vivid and reliable biography yet of the Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, remembered through the exaggeration and falsehood of legend as the ruthless Manchu concubine who seduced and murdered her way to the Chinese throne in 1861.