Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China (Hardback)
Jung Chang (author)Published: 26/09/2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780224087438
Number of pages: 464
Weight: 925 g
Dimensions: 240 x 162 x 43 mm
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