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Imperial Masquerade
Grant Hayter-Menzies
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Description for Imperial Masquerade
Hardback. Daughter of a Manchu aristocrat, granddaughter of a Boston merchant, Princess Der Ling was a fascinating human battleground of warring identities, and a figure whose life provides a glimpse into one Eurasian woman's experience of living not just between two cultures - that of China and the West. This book tells her story. Num Pages: 444 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; BG; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 29. Weight in Grams: 454.
The extraordinary life of the Manchu author, feminist and figure of controversy, who yearned to expose the true humanity of the elderly empress dowager feared and hated by the rest of the world, but never quite shared the truth of herself.
The extraordinary life of the Manchu author, feminist and figure of controversy, who yearned to expose the true humanity of the elderly empress dowager feared and hated by the rest of the world, but never quite shared the truth of herself.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Hong Kong University Press Hong Kong
Number of pages
444
Condition
New
Number of Pages
444
Place of Publication
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
ISBN
9789622098817
SKU
V9789622098817
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99-15
About Grant Hayter-Menzies
A resident of Sidney, British Columbia, Grant Hayter-Menzies has served as art and music critic for newspapers and magazines from the U.S. Pacific Northwest to the Eastern seaboard and in Western Canada. He is a former board member of the Northwest China Council in Portland, Oregon. Grant's first book, a long-awaited biography of American stage and screen comedienne Charlotte Greenwood, was published by McFarland & Company in May 2007.
Reviews for Imperial Masquerade
The last years of the Qing dynasty were a time of rumors, adventures, and mysterious opportunities for the polyglot inhabitants of Beijing. The memoir written in 1911 by the self-styled 'Princess' Der Ling, lady-in-waiting to the Empress Dowager between 1903 and 1905, has always presented baffling problems concerning accuracy and interpretation. Imperial Masquerade is an ingenious rethinking of the available evidence, and presents an absorbing account of how Der Ling survived at Court, and what it must have been like to work for such a formidable ruler.
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