Day 06: A book that reminds of you of somewhere: Dragon Lady by Sterling Seagrave
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Day 06: A book that reminds of you of somewhere: Dragon Lady: The Life and Legend of the Last Empress of China by Sterling Seagrave
This book, quite obviously, reminds me of China. I bought this while in China a few years back and devoured it rather quickly.
Seems to be the day for biographies.
Excerpt: "We do not even know her name. She was too private for that, and the world she lived in was uniquely designed to hide her behind multiple layers of court ritual and etiquette. Nobody ever spoke the name of the Son of Heaven or his wives, because they were demigods. She was born on November 29, 1835, the same year as Robert Hart, somewhere in China, but where exactly we do not know. Nor are we sure of her father's name or occupation, the name of her mother, or even the girl's milk-name, the name she was called as a nursing infant. She was an obscure daughter of an obscure Manchu officer and might have lived out her life in obscurity except that she was chosen to be one of the emperor's lesser concubines and had the good fortune to bear his only surviving son."
http://www.amazon.com/Dragon-Lady-Legend-Empress-China/dp/0679733698/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1333760422&sr=8-1
Day 06: A book that reminds of you of somewhere: Dragon Lady: The Life and Legend of the Last Empress of China by Sterling Seagrave
This book, quite obviously, reminds me of China. I bought this while in China a few years back and devoured it rather quickly.
Seems to be the day for biographies.
Excerpt: "We do not even know her name. She was too private for that, and the world she lived in was uniquely designed to hide her behind multiple layers of court ritual and etiquette. Nobody ever spoke the name of the Son of Heaven or his wives, because they were demigods. She was born on November 29, 1835, the same year as Robert Hart, somewhere in China, but where exactly we do not know. Nor are we sure of her father's name or occupation, the name of her mother, or even the girl's milk-name, the name she was called as a nursing infant. She was an obscure daughter of an obscure Manchu officer and might have lived out her life in obscurity except that she was chosen to be one of the emperor's lesser concubines and had the good fortune to bear his only surviving son."
http://www.amazon.com/Dragon-Lady-Legend-Empress-China/dp/0679733698/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1333760422&sr=8-1