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.
- ISBN10 0679733698
- ISBN13 9780679733690
- Publish Date 31 August 1993 (first published 6 March 1992)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Random House USA Inc
- Imprint Vintage Books
- Edition Vintage Books ed
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 624
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780679733690