376 pages
English language
Published Jan. 4, 1991 by Moyer Bell Ltd., Distributed by Rizzoli.
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Imperial Woman is a novel by Pearl S. Buck first published in 1956. Imperial Woman is a fictionalized biography of Empress Dowager Cixi (Tz'u Hsi in Wade–Giles), who was a concubine of the Xianfeng Emperor and on his death became the de facto head of the Qing dynasty until her death in 1908 (before which the novel ends).
Subjects
- Cixi, Empress dowager of China, 1835-1908 -- Fiction.
- Empresses -- Fiction.
- China -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.