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Very Good. Size: 9x7x1; Hardcover and dust jacket. Tears to jacket with loss. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. Tz'u-hsi was an Imperial consort who controlled the Chinese Qing dynasty for almost half a century. A low ranking concubine of the Xianfeng emperor (r. 1850-61), Cixi bore his only son, the future Tongzhi emperor, in 1856. After the emperor's death, Cixi joined a triumviral regency that governed in the name of her son, who was only 6 at his accession. During that period the Taiping and Nian rebellions were put down and the government was briefly revitalized. When Cixi's son died in 1875, Cixi violated the laws of succession and had her adoptive nephew enthroned. The regency thus continued, with Cixi becoming sole regent in 1884. In 1889 she nominally relinquished control but returned in 1898 to undo a set of radical reforms and had her nephew imprisoned in his palace. She supported the unsuccessful Boxer Rebellion, which had disastrous consequences for China.
Publisher:
New York, NY, USA: Macmillan Co., 1972.
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
10164678715
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Seller's Description:
Very Good. Book Quarto, hardcover, near fine in lightly edgeworn purple and turquoise pictorial dj. 271pp. a fascinating and sweeping book about the Empress Dowager of China. She was opportunistic, ruthless, malicious, and xenophobic. While her determination held the empire together for nearly 50 years her reactionary, Sino-centric view of the world plunged China into poverty and civil war and ultimately brought about the end to the Ch'ing Dynasty.
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Very Good. First American edition. Small quarto. 271pp. Illustrated. Some pages with light foxing, spine sunned, cloth modestly soiled, corners bumped, still very good lacking the dust jacket.
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UsedGood. Hardcover; fading and shelf wear to exterior; otherwise in good condition w ith clean text and tight binding. Dust jacket shows scuffing and edge tears, and spine ends are reinforced with tape.
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Good, fair. 26 cm, 271, illus. (some color), notes, references, index, DJ worn and torn. For almost 50 years Tzu-Hsi ruled over 400 million people. She thought herself the cleverest woman who ever lived, but she plunged China into poverty, civil war, and foreign invasions, and brought about the fall of the Ch'ing Dynasty.
