Empress Dowager Cixi; The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
by Chang, Jung
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0307271609
- ISBN 13
- 9780307271600
- Seller
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Woodstock, Illinois, United States
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Synopsis
JUNG CHANG was born in Sichuan Province, China, in 1952. She was a Red Guard briefly at the age of fourteen and then worked as a peasant, a "barefoot doctor," a steelworker, and an electrician before becoming an English-language student and, later, an assistant lecturer at Sichuan University. She left China for Britain in 1978 and was subsequently awarded a scholarship by York University, where she obtained a PhD in linguistics in 1982, the first person from the People's Republic of China to receive a doctorate from a British university.
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- Bookseller
- Carpetbagger Books, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6111
- Title
- Empress Dowager Cixi; The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
- Author
- Chang, Jung
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0307271609
- ISBN 13
- 9780307271600
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2013
- Keywords
- China, Chinese History, Boxer Rebellion, Taiping, Government, World History, Forbidden City, Beijing
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