Jung Chang

Broschiertes Buch

Empress Dowager Cixi

The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

Beschreibung

Discover the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age, from the bestselling author of Wild Swans In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi â the most important woman in Chinese history â brought a medieval empire into the modern age.

Autor

Jung Chang is the internationally bestselling author of Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China; Mao: The Unknown Story (with Jon Halliday); and Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine who Launched Modern China. Her books have been translated into over 40 languages and sold more than 15 million copies outside Mainland China, where they are banned. She was born in China in 1952, and came to Britain in 1978. She lives in London.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 619761
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 486g
• ISBN-13: 9780099532392
• ISBN-10: 0099532395
• Artikelnr.: 40400821

Rezensionen

Jung Chang tells a story and what a colourful tale it is...This is history at its most readable. George Walden Evening Standard