Book Description
Fictionized biography of Tzu-hsi, the last empress of China, who was known as "Old Buddha."
Author : Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Publisher :
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 37,79 MB
Release : 1956
Category : China
ISBN :
Fictionized biography of Tzu-hsi, the last empress of China, who was known as "Old Buddha."
Author : Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Publisher :
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 25,57 MB
Release : 1956
Category : China
ISBN :
Fictionized biography of Tzu-hsi, the last empress of China, who was known as "Old Buddha."
Author : Pearl S. Buck
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 16,91 MB
Release : 2013-05-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1480421189
From the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Good Earth: the New York Times–bestselling biography of Tzu Hsi, the concubine who became China’s last empress. In Imperial Woman, Pearl S. Buck brings to life the amazing story of Tzu Hsi, who rose from concubine status to become the working head of the Qing Dynasty. Born from a humble background, Tzu Hsi falls in love with her cousin Jung Lu, a handsome guard—but while still a teenager she is selected, along with her sister and hundreds of other girls, for relocation to the Forbidden City. Already set apart on account of her beauty, she’s determined to be the emperor’s favorite, and devotes all of her talent and cunning to the task. When the emperor dies, she finds herself in a role of supreme power, one she’ll command for nearly fifty years. Much has been written about Tzu Hsi, but no other novel recreates her life—the extraordinary personality, together with the world of court intrigue and the period of national turmoil with which she dealt—as well as Imperial Woman. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Pearl S. Buck including rare images from the author’s estate.
Author : Susan E. Wood
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 18,75 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004119505
Portraits of women -- on coins, public monuments, and private luxury objects --became an increasingly familiar sight throughout the Roman Empire. These portraits, always freighted with political significance, communicated social messages about the appropriate roles, behavior, and self-presentation of women. This book traces the emergence and development of the public female portrait, from Octavia, the first Roman woman to be represented on coinage, to the formidable and ambitious Agrippina the Younger, whose assassination demonstrated to later women the limits of official power they could demand.
Author : Mary Taliaferro Boatwright
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 10,51 MB
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 0190455896
Using all available sources, Boatwright explores the constraints and activities of the women of Rome's imperial families from 35 BCE to 235 CE. Livia, Agrippina the Younger, Julia Domna, and others feature in this richly illustrated investigation of change, continuity, historical contingency, and personal agency in imperial women's pursuits and representations.
Author : S.E. Wood
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 15,36 MB
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004351280
From the end of the Roman Republic to the death of the last Julio-Claudian emperor, portraits of women - on coins, public monuments, and private luxury objects - became an increasingly familiar sight throughout the empire. These women usually represented the distinguished bloodlines of the head of the state, or his hopes for succession, but in every case, their images were freighted with political significance. These objects also communicated social messages about the appropriate roles, behavior, and self-presentation of women. This volume traces the emergence and development of the public female portrait, from Octavia, the first Roman woman to be represented in propria persona on coinage, to the formidable and ambitious Agrippina the Younger, whose assassination demonstrated to later women the limits of official power they could demand.
Author : Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Publisher :
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 41,59 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
The story of the last empress of China.--from Cover.
Author : Pearl S. Buck
Publisher :
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 27,18 MB
Release : 1956
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Keith McMahon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,60 MB
Release : 2013-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1442222905
Chinese emperors guaranteed male successors by taking multiple wives, in some cases hundreds and even thousands. Women Shall Not Rule offers a fascinating history of imperial wives and concubines, especially in light of the greatest challenges to polygamous harmony—rivalry between women and their attempts to engage in politics. Besides ambitious empresses and concubines, these vivid stories of the imperial polygamous family are also populated with prolific emperors, wanton women, libertine men, cunning eunuchs, and bizarre cases of intrigue and scandal among rival wives. Keith McMahon, a leading expert on the history of gender in China, draws upon decades of research to describe the values and ideals of imperial polygamy and the ways in which it worked and did not work in real life. His rich sources are both historical and fictional, including poetic accounts and sensational stories told in pornographic detail. Displaying rare historical breadth, his lively and fascinating study will be invaluable as a comprehensive and authoritative resource for all readers interested in the domestic life of royal palaces across the world.
Author : Barbara Hill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 38,61 MB
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1317884655
This book will be essential reading for anyone studying Byzantine history in this period. It ranges in time from the death of the emperor Basil II in 1025 to the sacking of the city of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusaders in 1204, spanning the rise and fall of the successful Komnenos dynasty. Eleventh-century Byzantine history is unusual in that imperial women were able to wield immense power and in this ground-breaking book Dr Hill explores why this was possible and, equally, why they lost their position of influence a century later.