Empress Dowager Cixi : the concubine who launched modern China
Chang, Jung, 1952-2013
Books, Manuscripts
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.
London : Jonathan Cape, 2013.
436 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 25 cm
9780224087438 (hbk)
951.035092920 CIX920
English
71743