Empress Dowager Cixi : the concubine who launched modern China
题名:
Empress Dowager Cixi : the concubine who launched modern China
著者:
Chang, Jung, 1952-
ISBN:
9780224087445
出版信息:
London : Jonathan Cape, 2013
规格:
xiii, 436 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm
一般附注:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Shortlisted for James Tait Black Memorial Book Prizes: Biography 2014.
摘要:
In this ground-breaking biography, Jung Chang shows that under Cixi's rule China acquired virtually all the attributes of a modern state: industries, railways, cars, electricity, telephones, Western medicine, an army and navy with modern weaponry.
主题:
| Empresses -- China -- Biography |
| China -- Politics and government -- 19th century |
| China -- History -- 1861-1912 |
| Cixi, Empress dowager of China, 1835-1908. |
摘要:
In this ground-breaking biography, Jung Chang shows that under Cixi's rule China acquired virtually all the attributes of a modern state: industries, railways, cars, electricity, telephones, Western medicine, an army and navy with modern weaponry.