Full name: Dragon Lady: The Life and Legend of the Last Empress of China

Author: Sterling Seagrave Year: 1992 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Biographies, Non Fiction, Memoirs Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780679733690 0679733698

The author of The Soong Dynasty gives us our most vivid and reliable biography yet of the Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, remembered through the exaggeration and falsehood of legend as the ruthless Manchu concubine who seduced and murdered her way to the Chinese throne in 1861. Similar books: Empress Dowager Cixi by Jung Chang Zhou Enlai by Gao Wenqian Return to Dragon Mountain by Jonathan D. Spence The Man Who Loved China by Simon Winchester Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel Mao Zedong by Jonathan D. Spence The Private Life of Chairman Mao by Zhisui Li Restless Empire by Odd Arne Westad The Generalissimo by Jay Taylor The Great Wall by John Man Mao by Jung Chang The Long March by Sun Shuyun Treason by the Book by Jonathan D. Spence Mao's China and After by Maurice Meisner The Gate of Heavenly Peace by Jonathan D. Spence A River in Darkness by Masaji Ishikawa Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand Lady in Waiting by Anne Glenconner Upstairs at the White House by J. B. West Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden