Author: PRINCESS DER LING:
Title: Two Years in the Forbidden City. New York, Moffat, Yard and Company, 1912.
Description: . Pp. (xiv), 383. With frontispiece of the Princess and twenty-one illustrations made from photographs. Publisher's red cloth, lettered in gilt, spine end lightly rubbed. Early reprint of the first edition (1911). An interesting account of Empress Dowager Cixi and her life at the Palace. The author was educated in France and exposed to Western cultures, served as the Empress Dowager's lady-in-waiting and interpreter. This book was published just before the fall of the Qing dynasty.
Keywords: East Asia, china, chine, chinese, kina, biography, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, history, exploration, royal, empress dowager cixi
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Title: Two Years in the Forbidden City. New York, Moffat, Yard and Company, 1912.
Description: . Pp. (xiv), 383. With frontispiece of the Princess and twenty-one illustrations made from photographs. Publisher's red cloth, lettered in gilt, spine end lightly rubbed. Early reprint of the first edition (1911). An interesting account of Empress Dowager Cixi and her life at the Palace. The author was educated in France and exposed to Western cultures, served as the Empress Dowager's lady-in-waiting and interpreter. This book was published just before the fall of the Qing dynasty.
Keywords: East Asia, china, chine, chinese, kina, biography, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, history, exploration, royal, empress dowager cixi
Price: EUR 300.00 = appr. US$ 326.05 Seller: Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books
- Book number: 121381
- Book number: 121381
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