Empress Dowager Cixi : the concubine who launched modern China
Chang, Jung, 1952-2014
Book
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.
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Author:
Chang, Jung, 1952-, author
Imprint:
London : Vintage Books, 2014.London : Vintage Books, 2014.
Collation:
xvii, 436 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2013.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780099532392 (pbk)
Dewey class:
951.035092951.035092 CIX
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1568717