| | Dragon Empress: Life and Times of Tz'u-hsi, 1835-1908, Empress Dowager of China |  | Author: Marina Warner
Publisher: Cardinal Books
Category: Book
List Price: £2.50
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 132924
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 271
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
ISBN: 0351186573
Dewey Decimal Number: 951
EAN: 9780351186578
ASIN: 0351186573
Publication Date: September 1974
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Condition: Inscription on back of front cover.
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Excellent portrait of a dynasty in decline June 15, 2002
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
Marina Warner's account of the Dowager Empress's life provides a fascinating portrait of the Qing Dynasty in decline. The book is highly readable and informative. Like other reviewers I also found her account more compelling than Sterling Seagrave's biography. My only gripes with the book is that it needs a better map of China that shows where the key events took place; and that the book has not been updated for the more prevalent Pinyin transliterations of Chinese names which will be more familiar to today's readers.
Superbly written, perceptive November 29, 2001
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
The best-written and most accurate biography of the Empress-dowager Tz'u-hsi. Although Marina Warner never studied Chinese, her account almost always tallies with the vernacular sources. She offers a shrewd, plausible and perceptive analysis of Tz'u-hsi's character. Her appraisal of the period has more insight and balance than Sterling Seagrave's jaundiced politically correct approach. An excellent introduction to the late Ch'ing dynasty.
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