The Last Great Empress of China
Author(s):
Haldane, Charlotte
| Binding: | Hardcover |
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| Size: | 6 - 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall |
| Volume Condition: | Very Good |
| Dust Jacket: | No |
| Language: | English |
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| Publisher Name: | Heron |
| Publication Year: | 1968 |
| Publication Place: | London, UK |
| SKU: | 013618 |
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336pp. Green vinyl-covered boards; silver and white design on front and spine, silver titles on spine; silk page marker. Bumped spine head. Illustrated endpapers. Text block edges just starting to fox. Decorative endpapers, bookplate on front free endpaper; paper creased, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. 8vo. Biography of Tzu Hsi the last great Empress of traditional China - vilified in the foreign press as a cunning, treacherous, sex-crazed despot, but who actually reformed China from a medieval to modern country - building railways, championing women's rights and abolishing medieval methods of torture.
Keywords:
China