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Publisher: Cambridge University Press

at times exquisitely sophisticated

this precise

Hamish Maxwell-Stewart

Published with Tang Museum

Empress of China Nationalism Publisher: Cambridge University PressA searing yet sympathetic portrait of the extraordinary Dowager Empress Tzu hsi as she rises to power then finds herself, at the dawn of the twentieth century, fighting new forces of opposition from the suddenly rebellious people of China and from foreign powers eager to seize her land and destroy her civilization.

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