Imperial Masquerade : Princess Der Ling
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ISBN：
9789622098817
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定價：
HK$ 295.00
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作者：
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語言：
英語
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出版社：
Hong Kong University Press
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分類：
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出版日期：
2008-01-01
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發行日期：
2008-02-04
"The memoir written in 1911 by the self-styled 'Princess' Der Ling [...] has always presented baffling problems concerning accuracy and interpretation. Imperial Masquerade is an ingenious rethinking of the available evidence." -- Jonathan Spence, author of The Search for Modern China and Return to Dragon Mountain
• The first biography of Princess Der Ling (德齡公主), the first lady-in-waiting to China's Empress Dowager Cixi (慈禧太后), through which readers can peep and see the life in the Forbidden City and the true humanity of the formidable ruler.
• A delightful portrait of one of the 20th century's most intriguing cross-cultural personalities -- daughter of a Manchu aristocrat, granddaughter of a Boston merchant and later wife of an American soldier, educated like a boy in the Confucian classics, a baptized Catholic blessed by the hand of Pope Leo XIII, a woman who donned chic Western fashions in China and her ceremonial court robes in the U.S.
• Includes very rare photos, some never before seen.
Grant Hayter-Menzies is an art and music critic for newspapers and magazines from the U.S. Pacific Northwest to the Eastern seaboard and in Western Canada
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