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Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang
$32.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908) is the most important woman in Chinese history. She ruled China for decades and brought a medieval empire into the modern age. At the age of sixteen, in a nationwide selection for royal consorts, Cixi was chosen as one of the emperor's numerous concubines and sexual part ...Show more
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From the bestselling author of Wild Swans and Mao- The Unknown StoryIn 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 ...Show more
Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang; Jon Halliday
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"Jung Chang's Wild Swanswas an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking biography of Mao Tse-tung. Based on a decade of research, ...Show more
The Empress Dowager Cixi - The Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang
$52.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908) is the most important woman in Chinese history. She ruled China for decades and brought a medieval empire into the modern age. At the age of sixteen, in a nationwide selection for royal consorts, Cixi was chosen as one of the emperor's numerous concubines and sexual part ...Show more
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Few books have had such an impact as Wild Swans a popular bestseller and a critically acclaimed history of China that opened up the country to the world. Through the story of three generations of women in her own family-the grandmother given to the warlord as a concubine, the Communist mother, and the d ...Show more
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