China Under the Empress Dowager
Throughout the years of Chinese self-questioning in the second half of the nineteenth century, Tz’u Hsi, the Empress Dowager, held the stage, untouched by the new thought. By Richard Harris.
Throughout the years of Chinese self-questioning in the second half of the nineteenth century, Tz’u Hsi, the Empress Dowager, held the stage, untouched by the new thought. By Richard Harris.
Richard Harris describes the various forces of change at play in China's tumultuous first half century.
How the South-East Asian peninsula had been shaped before French colonial rule.