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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.Sterling Seagrave is the author of 'Dragon Lady: The Life and Legend of the Last Empress of China', published 1993 under ISBN 9780679733690 and ISBN 0679733698.
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