by Jung Chang
This was way outside of my usual reading fare - I don't read a lot of non-fiction and I read very few books set in China. I am involved in a GR group, and we selected the Dowager Empress Cixi as an area of focus for the first part of the year, so I ended up reading this. It was, unfortunately, the o...
bookshelves: autumn-2013, china, biography, history, nonfiction, published-2013 Recommended to Bettie by: Laura Read on September 28, 2013 BBC BLURB: Jung-Chang's ground-breaking biography reassesses the reputation of this formidable 19th century stateswoman who single-handedly dragged China i...
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