In this 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 rule, the ancient country...
Fifteen years after the publication of Wild Swans, Jung Chang, a linguistics PhD from the University of York, releases this biography co-written with her husband, historian Jon Halliday. The work combines...
The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten...
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