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Product Description: Mr. Woo continues his history of China from 1911, when the Qing dynasty was overthrown after the death of Empress Dowager Cixi, to modern times: a tumultuous century that saw chaos and warlords, invasions, regime change, confiscation of property, and later a return to a mixed economy allowing some capitalist features...read more

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9781628940978 | Algora Pub, August 1, 2014, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Mr.

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9781628940961 | Algora Pub, August 1, 2014, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Mr.

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9780875869971 | Algora Pub, April 15, 2013, cover price $31.95

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9780875869964 | Algora Pub, April 15, 2013, cover price $21.95

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Product Description: This book focuses on the image-making for China¿s Empress Dowager Cixi (1834¿1908) and on Western views of her. Although many articles and biographies written by Westerners have tried to understand her, Cixi, who had worked her way up from being selected as a concubine of Emperor Xianfeng in 1851, remains a mystery...read more

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9783639109641 | Vdm Verlag Dr Mueller E K, December 15, 2008, cover price $111.00 | About this edition: This book focuses on the image-making for China¿s Empress Dowager Cixi (1834¿1908) and on Western views of her.

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Empress Wu was stunning in her beauty, in her ruthless elimination of rivals (including sons and daughters), and, most important, in her discernment. She was esteemed for appointing capable officials throughout the realm, and she implemented reforms that improved standards of higher education, gave some status to women, and 'democratized' the recruitment of candidates for official posts by eliminating the requirement that they be nominated by someone within the establishment. Europe and Great Britain have had many sovereign queens in the course of history. In ancient China, there was none of that. Only one Empress ever ruled China in her own name Empress Wu. Given her startling performance in a world of deadly intrigue and shifting loyalties, Wu is still respected as an effective and clear-sighted ruler. Related in an easy-reading style, the facts in the book are derived from China's classic historical record the Zizhitongjian (meaning 'History is a mirror to help rule' ), which was written by a courtier in Song Dynasty, the very next dynasty after the Tang Dynasty. Beginning in AD 617, the narrative traces the rise of Wu's father from humble bean-curd dealer to army officer and friend of the Emperor, her own arrival at age 13 as a concubine to the Emperor, and the brilliant exploitation of opportunities by which she attained the throne. Other empresses had ruled China for a time while their husbands were weak and their sons were young; Wu did the same from 665 to 690. But Wu achieved a higher status than any woman before or since when she declared her own dynasty in 690 and ruled directly for another 15 years. Readers are treated to some of the flavor of life inside the capital, then at Xi'an, the eastern tip of the great Silk Road (now known in international tourism as the site of the famous Terracotta Warriors). In those years the Chinese ruler held sway far to the south, into Indochina, and westward as far as today's Kyrgyzstan. Brief descriptions indicate the tumultuous events unfolding throughout Asia as China vied with Mongol tribes and the Tibetan Empire to establish the map we know today and some of the disputes over boundaries and sovereignty that are still ongoing.

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9780875866611 | Algora Pub, June 30, 2006, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Empress Wu was stunning in her beauty, in her ruthless elimination of rivals (including sons and daughters), and, most important, in her discernment.

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9780875866604 | Algora Pub, June 30, 2006, cover price $21.95

This is a totally new kind of novel, a brand-new theme mystery novel in the mystery novel department, not seen in the market yet.

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9781413706499 | Publishamerica Inc, September 30, 2004, cover price $27.95
9781552123355 | Trafford on Demand Pub, March 1, 2000, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: This is a totally new kind of novel, a brand-new theme mystery novel in the mystery novel department, not seen in the market yet.

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9780595315499 | Iuniverse Inc, March 31, 2004, cover price $10.95

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Product Description: In all the history of China, only two women ever conquered and held the heights of power. Both enjoyed long reigns characterized by ruthless intrigue; they maintained an iron grip at the center while the vast country was torn by rebellions and caught up in foreign wars...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781892941893 | Algora Pub, May 1, 2002, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: In all the history of China, only two women ever conquered and held the heights of power.

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9781588519771 | Publishamerica Inc, July 1, 2001, cover price $16.95

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