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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.
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6 editions · 2 languages- Hardcover · English · 1994Random House Value Publishing · 9780517117996
- Hardcover · English · 1992Macmillan · 384 pages · 9780333525562
- Other · English · 1993Papermac · 601 pages · 9780333593912
- Other · English · 1993Vintage Books · 601 pages · 9780679733690
- Other · English · 1992Knopf · 601 pages · 9780679402305
- Other · Chinese · 2005Long fu renZhong yang bian yi chu ban she · 402 pages · 9787802110885
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