Jung Chang: Empress Dowager Cixi
Empress Dowager Cixi
Buch
- The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
- Random House UK Ltd, 07/2014
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780099532392
- Bestellnummer: 4099301
- Umfang: 528 Seiten
- Copyright-Jahr: 2014
- Gewicht: 481 g
- Maße: 198 x 128 mm
- Stärke: 38 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 3.7.2014
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Kurzbeschreibung
From the bestselling author of Wild Swans and Mao: The Unknown Story, the extraordinary story of the woman who single-handedly dragged China into the modern ageBeschreibung
From the bestselling author of Wild Swans and Mao: The Unknown StoryIn 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 andalso 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.
Packed with drama, fast-paced and gripping, it is both a panoramic depiction of the birth of modern China and an intimate portrait of a woman: as the concubine to a monarch, as the absolute ruler of a third of the world s population, and as a unique stateswoman.
Powerful Simon Sebag Montefiore
Truly authoritative New York Times
Wonderful Sunday Times
Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Biography Prize
Rezension
"Jung Chang tells a story and what a colourful tale it is This is history at its most readable." George Walden Evening StandardKlappentext
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.Packed with drama, fast-paced and gripping, it is both a panoramic depiction of the birth of modern China and an intimate portrait of a woman: as the concubine to a monarch, as the absolute ruler of a third of the world's population, and as a unique stateswoman.