The Dragon Empress: Life and Times of Tz'u-hsi 1835-1908 Empress Dowager of China
From 1861 to 1908 a woman, the Empress Dowager Tz'u-hsi, born the daughter of a minor mandarin, held the supreme power in China. Opportunistic, ruthless, malicious, she ruled over four hundred million people. Marina Warner's... See More