The Last Empress has been remembered as one of history's most
mon-strous women-a ruthless Manchu concubine who seduced and
murdered her way to the throne in 1861 to rule China through
perversion,corrup-tion,and intrigue for half a century.Yet Sterling
Seagrave's magnificent biography of the Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi is
both a timely reassessmenht of the myth and an unsparing account of
the imperialism from which it arose.
Drawing on a vast array of sources,penetrating the secrecy of the
Forbidden City and the sanctimony of Tzu Hsi's Victorian
bIOGRAPHERS Dragom ;adu goes tje ,most vivid and accurate portrait
to date of the much-maligned last empress.It is also a riveting
chornicle of China's termi-nal encounter with the West and an
astute look at the conquerors' need to create a monster where they
could not find one.
Sterling Seagrave,best-selling author of The Soong Dynasty,grew up
on the China-Burma border,the fifth generation of an American
fa mily living in the Orient for nearly two centuries.As an
ivestigative jounalist in Asia,he contributed to many major
newspapers and magazines.His other books include Yellow Rain and
The Marcos Dynasty.He and his wife and collaborator,Peggy Sawyer
Seagrave,Live in Europe.
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