{"product_id":"empress-dowager-cixi-the-concubine-who-launched-modern-china","title":"Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China","description":"\u003cp\u003eJung Chang\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the bestselling author of Wild Swans and Mao: The Unknown Story\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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 Forbidden City, where she lived surrounded by eunuchs – with one of whom she fell in love, with tragic consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePacked with drama, fast-paced and gripping, it is both a panoramic depiction of the birth of modern China and an intimate portrait of a woman: as the concubine to a monarch, as the absolute ruler of a third of the world’s population, and as a unique stateswoman.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Powerful’ Simon Sebag Montefiore\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Truly authoritative’ New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Wonderful’ Sunday Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShortlisted for the James Tait Black Biography Prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published September 26, 2013\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Good \/ Paperback \/ Jung Chang","offer_id":52413850222890,"sku":"9780099532392","price":29.0,"currency_code":"ILS","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0734\/4039\/5562\/files\/18657603.jpg?v=1787846688","url":"https:\/\/evasusedbooks.co\/products\/empress-dowager-cixi-the-concubine-who-launched-modern-china","provider":"Eva's Used Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}