China Under the Empress Dowager: Being the History of the Life and Times of Tzu Hsi

London: William Heinemann, 1911. Cloth. Good. 10" by 6.5". Not Stated. An illustrated work on the life and times of the Empress Dowager Tsu Hsi. 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. 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. Good