Empress Dowager Cixi, Paperback/Jung Chang

Paperback edition of the extraordinary biography of the woman who single-handedly dragged China into the modern age, from the author of }Wild Swans{ and }Mao: The Unknown Story{. Chang paints a very different picture of this unusually powerful woman, who has been vilified by other historians. 'This is a rich, dramatic story...' Bel Mooney, }Daily Mail{