CHINA UNDER THE EMPRESS
DOWAGER
The “Holy Mother,” Her Majesty Tzŭ Hsi.
(From a Photograph taken in 1903.)
CHINA UNDER THE
EMPRESS DOWAGER
BEING THE HISTORY OF THE LIFE AND
TIMES OF TZŬ HSI
COMPILED FROM STATE PAPERS AND THE
PRIVATE DIARY OF THE COMPTROLLER OF
HER HOUSEHOLD
BY
J. O. P. BLAND and E. BACKHOUSE
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