The Last Great Empress of China by Charlotte Haldane 1965

From 1861-1908 Tzu Hsi, the Empress Dowager, was the undisputed ruler of China. She spent nearly all her life in the magnificent but impenetrable seclusion of the Forbidden City and the Summer Palace, which she entered in 1853 as a minor concubine of the Hsien Feng Emperor.

Her enemies said she was more vicious and depraved than Messalina; crueler than Lucrezia Borgia; and more despotic than Catherine the Great. Some of her more extravagant British and American admirers have even placed her above Elizabeth I of England as the greatest stateswoman the world has ever known. Tzu Hsi was one of the most enigmatic and fascinating women of all time.

Title: The Last Great Empress of China
Author: Charlotte Haldane
Publisher: Bobbs-Merril Company
Publication Date: 1965
Printer: The Garden City Press Limited. Letchworth, Hertfordshire, Great Britain
Binding: Hardcover  
Language: English
Pages: 304
Measures approximately: 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 x 1 inches (21.5 x 14 x 2.5 cm.)
Condition of the book: Please see the images.
Interests: History, Biography, literature, China, Empress
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