num_pages: 601
description: The author of The Soong Dynasty gives us our most vivid and reliable biography yet of the Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, remembered through the exaggeration and falsehood of legend as the ruthless Manchu concubine who seduced and murdered her way to the Chinese throne in 1861.
language: English
title: Dragon Lady: The Life and Legend of the Last Empress of China
titlecomplete: Dragon Lady: The Life and Legend of the Last Empress of China
genres: China, Asia, 20th Century, Historical, Biography, Asian Literature, Nonfiction, History, 19th Century, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 666
publisher: Alfred A. Knopf