In 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 the attributes of a modern state and it was she who abolished gruesome punishments like ‘death by a thousand cuts’ and put an end to foot-binding. Jung Chang comprehensively overturns the conventional view of Cixi as a diehard conservative and cruel despot andalso takes the reader into the depths of her splendid Summer Palace and the harem of Beijing’s F Empress Dowager Cixi - Jung Chang od authora Jung Chang a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.
| Autor |
Jung Chang |
| Jazyk |
anglický |
| Počet stran |
528 |
| Rok vydání |
2014 |
| Typ |
filmy |
| Nakladatelství |
Vintage |
