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Author: Princess Der Ling
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Published: 1911
Total Pages: 448
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author of the following narrative has peculiar qualifications for her task. She is a daughter of Lord Yü Keng, a member of the Manchu White Banner Corps, and one of the most advanced and progressive Chinese officials of his generation. -- Foreword.
Author: Princess Der Ling
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-08-27
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 3387006136
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author: Princess Der Ling
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Published: 1997
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Princess Der Ling
Publisher: e-artnow
Published: 2018-12-21
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 802724692X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Two Years in the Forbidden City is the memoir by Princess Der Ling about her life in the service of Empress Dowager Cixi, where she was the First lady-in-waiting, as well as interpreter for her when she received foreign visitors. The book provides unique insights into life at the Manchu court and the character of the Empress, a world that ended abruptly with the 1911 revolution that overthrew the Manchu or Qing dynasty.
Author: Princess Der Ling
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2019-11-21
Total Pages: 215
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwo Years in the Forbidden City is an autobiography by Princess Der Ling. Her royal highness depicts her time while serving as the first lady-in-waiting for Empress Dowager Cixi, conveying the atmosphere of the Chinese court in those times.
Author: Der Ling Princess
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Published: 2013-01
Total Pages: 442
ISBN-13: 9781313150439
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author: Daisy Yiyou Wang
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Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780300237085
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Empresses of China's Forbidden City: 1644-1912 accompanies the exhibition of the same title organized by the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, the Freer]Sackler, Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, DC, and the Palace Museum, Beijing, China."
Author: William Bell
Publisher: Seal Books
Published: 2010-10-15
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0385674120
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSeventeen-year-old Alex Jackson comes home from school to find that his father, a CBC news cameraman, wants to take him to China's capital, Beijing. Once there, Alex finds himself on his own in Tian An Men Square as desperate students fight the Chinese army for their freedom. Separated from his father and carrying illegal videotapes, Alex must trust the students to help him escape. Closely based on eyewitness accounts of the massacre in Beijing, Forbidden City is a powerful and frightening story.
Author: Mrs. Thaddeus C White
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Published: 1911
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Vanessa Hua
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2023-04-18
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 0399178821
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A teenage girl living in 1960s China becomes Mao Zedong’s protégée and lover—and a heroine of the Cultural Revolution—in this “masterful” (The Washington Post) novel. “A new classic about China’s Cultural Revolution . . . Think Succession, but add death and mayhem to the palace intrigue. . . . Ambitious and impressive.”—San Francisco Chronicle ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, PopSugar • Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize On the eve of China’s Cultural Revolution and her sixteenth birthday, Mei dreams of becoming a model revolutionary. When the Communist Party recruits girls for a mysterious duty in the capital, she seizes the opportunity to escape her impoverished village. It is only when Mei arrives at the Chairman’s opulent residence—a forbidden city unto itself—that she learns that the girls’ job is to dance with the Party elites. Ambitious and whip-smart, Mei beelines toward the Chairman. Mei gradually separates herself from the other recruits to become the Chairman’s confidante—and paramour. While he fends off political rivals, Mei faces down schemers from the dance troupe who will stop at nothing to take her place and the Chairman’s imperious wife, who has secret plans of her own. When the Chairman finally gives Mei a political mission, she seizes it with fervor, but the brutality of this latest stage of the revolution makes her begin to doubt all the certainties she has held so dear. Forbidden City is an epic yet intimate portrayal of one of the world’s most powerful and least understood leaders during this extraordinarily turbulent period in modern Chinese history. Mei’s harrowing journey toward truth and disillusionment raises questions about power, manipulation, and belief, as seen through the eyes of a passionate teenage girl.
