DJ and boards show very light shelf wear, previous dealers stamp on back pastedown, remainder marks on top and bottom page edges. ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 436 pages; "In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi ? the most important woman in Chinese history ? brought a medieval empire into the modern age. Under her, the ancient country attained virtually all the attributes of a modern state and it was she who abolished gruesome punishments like ?death by a thousand cuts? and put an end to foot-binding. Jung Chang comprehensively overturns the conventional view of Cixi as a diehard conservative and cruel despot andalso takes the reader into the depths of her splendid Summer Palace and the harem of Beijing?s Forbidden City, where she lived surrounded by eunuchs ? with one of whom she fell in love, with tragic consequences." Title: Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China Author Name: Chang, Jung Edition: First Edition; First Printing ISBN Number: 0307357546 ISBN-13: 9780307357540 Location Published: Toronto, Random House Canada: 2013 Binding: Hardcover Book Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket Item: 1.00 lb Categories: History, Royalty, Asia, China Seller ID: 21535 Keywords: empress boxer rebellion china