With the Empress Dowager of China (Pacific Basin Books)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Kegan Paul
Published: February 1987
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780710302182
Subjects: Anthropology; Fiction; Cixi,; Sociology; China; General; History / Asia; Tzu-hsi; 1835-1908; Biography; Empress dowager of China,; Empresses
First sentence: THE day of my first Audience at the Chinese Court, August 5th, we were up betimes at the American Legation, for it takes full three hours to drive out to the Summer Palace from Peking; and punctuality is the etiquette of Oriental as well as of Occidental potentates.