Embroidered gauze
Subtitle: portraits of famous Chinese ladies
By: by Eloise Talcott Hibbert.
Publisher: E.P. Dutton
Published: 1941
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
Subjects: Women -- China; China -- Court and courtiers
Notes: Printed in Great Britain.
Table of contents: title: Wives, concubines and courtesans.; title: The most beautiful of Chinese women.; title: A despotic empress.; title: A feminist of long ago.; title: Princesses in exile.; title: The Empress Wu.; title: The beloved of an emperor.; title: A Taoist nun.; title: Precious Pearl.; title: The perfumed princess.; title: The last great ruler of China.; title: Sources (p. [315]-326)