Dragon Lady: The Life and Legend of the Last Empress of China (1992)

Format: Hardcover

ISBN: 0679402306

Condition: Good

The dust jacket is wrinkled and price-clipped, and the book has a moderate amount of shelf wear. A previous owner has left a note on the flyleaf.

Book Description:

The last empress of China - Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi (1835-1908) - is remembered as one of history's monsters, an iron-willed concubine who, after usurping power in 1861, ruled from the Dragon Throne for half a century. Her reign, in the aftermath of the Opium Wars and through the Boxer Rebellion until the collapse of the 2,000-year-old empire, has traditionally been seen as one of murder, poison, and intrigue. But the wicked image is false. - from the inside flap