Title: Dragon Lady
First published: 1992
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.
Subjects: Empresses, Biography, Cixi, empress dowager of china, 1835-1908
Places: China
People: Cixi Empress dowager of China (1835-1908), Ci xi Empress Dowager of China (1835-1908)