Empress Dowager Cixi : the concubine who launched modern China
題名:
Empress Dowager Cixi : the concubine who launched modern China
著者:
Chang, Jung, 1952-
ISBN（國際標準書號）:
9780099532392
出版資訊:
London : Vintage Books, 2014.
規格:
xvii, 436 p., 32 unnumbered p. of plates : ill. (some col.), map, ports. ; 20 cm
一般附註:
Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2013.
摘要:
This is from the bestselling author of Wild Swans and Mao: The Unknown Story. In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in Chinese history - brought a medieval empire into the modern age. Under her, the ancient country attained virtually all the attributes of a modern state and it was she who abolished gruesome punishments like 'death by a thousand cuts' and put an end to foot-binding. Jung Chang comprehensively overturns the conventional view of Cixi as a diehard conservative and cruel despot and also takes the reader into the depths of her splendid Summer Palace and the harem of Beijing's Forbidden City, where she lived surrounded by eunuchs - with one of whom she fell in love, with tragic consequences.
主題:
| Empresses -- China -- Biography. |
| China -- Politics and government -- 19th century. |
| China -- History -- 1861-1912. |
| Cixi, Empress dowager of China, 1835-1908. |
摘要:
This is from the bestselling author of Wild Swans and Mao: The Unknown Story. In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in Chinese history - brought a medieval empire into the modern age. Under her, the ancient country attained virtually all the attributes of a modern state and it was she who abolished gruesome punishments like 'death by a thousand cuts' and put an end to foot-binding. Jung Chang comprehensively overturns the conventional view of Cixi as a diehard conservative and cruel despot and also takes the reader into the depths of her splendid Summer Palace and the harem of Beijing's Forbidden City, where she lived surrounded by eunuchs - with one of whom she fell in love, with tragic consequences.