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The Last Empress has been remembered as one of history's most mon-strous women-a ruthless Manchu concubine who seduced and murdered her way to the throne in 1861 to rule China through perversion,corrup-tion,and intrigue for half a century.Yet Sterling Seagrave's magnificent biography of the Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi is both a timely reassessmenht of the myth and an unsparing account of the imperialism from which it arose.

Drawing on a vast array of sources,penetrating the secrecy of the Forbidden City and the sanctimony of Tzu Hsi's Victorian bIOGRAPHERS Dragom ;adu goes tje ,most vivid and accurate portrait to date of the much-maligned last empress.It is also a riveting chornicle of China's termi-nal encounter with the West and an astute look at the conquerors' need to create a monster where they could not find one.

Sterling Seagrave,best-selling author of The Soong Dynasty,grew up on the China-Burma border,the fifth generation of an American family living in the Orient for nearly two centuries.As an ivestigative jounalist in Asia,he contributed to many major newspapers and magazines.His other books include Yellow Rain and The Marcos Dynasty.He and his wife and collaborator,Peggy Sawyer Seagrave,Live in Europe.

Cast of Cbaracters

Autbor's Note

PROLOGUE Flowers in the Back Garden

ONE Lady Yebenara

TOW Foreign Devils

THREE The Palace Coup

FOUR Bebind a Gauze Curtain

FIVE Two Men on a Horse

SIX Life in a Yelow Mist

SEVEN Suicide of a Phoenix

EIGHT “Our Hart”

NINE A Hostage to Etiquette

TEN The New Ironbats

ELEVEN The Wild Fox

TWELVE The Puppet Show

THIRTEEN The Betrayal

FOURTEEN The Fugitive

FIFTEEN Poisoned Pen

XIXTEEN The Sly Pornograpber

SEVENTEEN Weed People

EIGHTEEN Somebing Wicked Tbis Way Comes

NINETEEN A Mad,Rotten Scheme

TWENTY The Siege of Peking

TWENTY-ONE Chinese Takeaway

TWENTY-TWO Forked Tongue

TWENTY-THREE The Dragons Flee

TWENTY-FOUR “That Odious Woman”

TWENTY-FIVE Hunting Snipe

TWENTY-SIX Hatching the Dragon Lady

EPILOGUE Dynasty's End

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index

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The Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, ruling from behind the silk curtain, held extraordinary power during the last decades of China's tottering empire. Her name has always been linked with unflattering adjectives like ruthless and cunning. Now, Seagrave explains why the woman has had such a bad press. In this quite irresistible history, the author argues that it was a trio of Englishmen who were ruthless and cunning, and it was through their flawed and distorted reporting on the court that Tzu Hsi received the bum rap from which she has never recovered. Seagrave's revisionism is based on the earlier revelations of Hugh Trevor-Roper's Hermit of Peking ( LJ 4/1/77), itself a lively book, but Seagrave is matchless when it comes to turning avid research into engaging history. Wonderful for the general reader (a helpful cast of some 200 characters is provided) but the book also has the notes and bibliography of a scholarly study.

- John H. Boyle, California State Univ., Chico

Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

书籍介绍

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.