Empress Dowager Cixi : the concubine who launched modern China
Chang, Jung, 1952-2013
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.
Main title:
Author:
Chang, Jung, 1952-, author
Imprint:
London : Jonathan Cape, 2013.London : Jonathan Cape, 2013.
Collation:
436 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 25 cm
ISBN:
9780224087438 (hbk)
Dewey class:
951.035092951.035092 CHA951.035092CHA951.035
Local class:
B CIX
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1191342