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China Under the Empress Dowager: Being the History of the Life and Times of Tzu Hsi
J. O. P. Bland; E. Backhouse
1911
William Heinemann : London
10" by 6.5"
xv, 525pp.
SUMMARY
An illustrated work on the life and times of the Empress Dowager Tsu Hsi.
Illustrated,Original Binding,Publishers' Original Binding
Overall Condition: Good
This book weighs 1 KG when packed
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DESCRIPTION
New impression, first printed 1910.
Illustrated with a frontispiece, one map, and twenty-six plates. Collated complete.
The life and times of Empress Dowager Cixi or Tzu Hsi, a Chinese noblewoman of the Manchu Yehe Nara clan who controlled the Chinese government in the late Qing dynasty as empress dowager and regent for almost fifty years.
Compiled from state papers and the private diary of the comptroller of her household.
Written by John Otway Percy Bland, a British writer and journalist best known for his books on Chinese politics and history, and Sir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse, a British oriental scholar, Sinologist, and linguist recognised for his writing's influence on the Western view of the last decades of the Qing dynasty.
CONDITION
In the original green cloth binding. Externally, sound with rubbing and light bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine and the odd small mark to the boards. Minor loss to the head and tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd spot. Age toning to the endpapers.
Overall Condition: Good
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Overall Condition
(Dustwrapper condition rating is shown after that for the book itself, where a dustwrapper is present)
Fine - Very well preserved copy showing very little wear
Very Good Indeed - Only one or two minor faults, really a very attractive copy
Very Good - Quite a wide term meaning no major faults but probably several smaller ones
often expected given the age of the book, but still a respectable copy
Good - Meaning not very good. Some more serious faults as will
be described in the condition report under 'condition'
Good Only - Meaning one or more faults that could really do with repair
Fair - As with good only above but with other faults
leaving a compromised copy even after repair
Poor - Really bad and possibly seriously incomplete.
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