Thread: Literary Empress Dowager Cixi by Jung Chang
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Old 09-09-2014, 01:45 PM   #4
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hm, I am a bit surprised that the Empress Dowager has won. For some reason I thought Samuel Pepys would win....
But I voted for the Empress, so I am glad. Several years ago I read the book Wild Swans of Jung Chang and was very impressed by her talent, both for historical research and storytelling.
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and I visited Xin Jiang and Being in China last year. Also the Forbidden City, Summer Palace, Confucius Temple and all. That is quite another story though, but it provided me with the 'couleur locale' for these books about Chinese people.
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