Empress Dowager Cixi : the concubine who launched modern China
Chang, Jung, 1952-2013
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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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London : Jonathan Cape, 2013.
Collation:
436 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 25 cm
ISBN:
9780224087438 (hbk)
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English
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BRN:
71743