Imperial masquerade : the legend of princess Der Ling / Grant Hayter-Menzies ; with a foreword by Pamela Kyle Crossley.

By:

Hayter-Menzies, Grant, 1964-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 2008.Description: 1 online resource (xxviii, 389 pages :) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9789888052394
988805239X
9622098819
9789622098817

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Imperial masquerade.DDC classification:

951/.035 22

LOC classification:

DS764.23.D4 H38 2008

Other classification:

K827
NQ 5760
NW 8100

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Contents:

Foreword / Pamela Kyle Crossley -- 1. "The marriage, I believe, was a love affair ..." -- 2. Culture clash -- 3. "A noisy family of English-speaking children ..." -- 4. Beijing to Tokyo -- 5. Samurai in pinstripes -- 6. Chrysanthemums and politics -- 7. Back to China, forward to France -- 8. La ville lumiere -- 9. Chinese powder keg -- 10. Dancing with Isadora -- 11. "The golden goddess of tragedy" -- 12. Scandal -- 13. Empress Dowager Cixi -- 14. Garden of Nurtured Harmony -- 15. Lady of the court -- 16. Eunuchs and jewels -- 17. "A very precious child" -- 18. Rumblings in paradise -- 19. The forbidden city -- 20. Cat's eyes and big feet -- 21. A portrait for the Empress -- 22. Hungry ghosts -- 23. Imperial birthday -- 24. War clouds -- 25. "First-class female official" -- 26. East is West, West is East -- 27. Flapper "princess" -- 28. "To others she may have been cruel ..." -- 29. On the defense -- 30. Scheherazade of the Hotel Wagons-Lits -- 31." ... she means to educate Americans ..." -- 32. Squeeze money -- 33. China reborn -- 34. Princess of patriots.

Review: "Imperial Masquerade: The Legend of Princess Der Ling, the first biography of one of the twentieth century's most intriguing cross-cultural personalities, traces not only the life of Princess Der Ling, in all its various transformations, but offers a fresh look at the woman she lionized and, ultimately, betrayed - the Empress Dowager Cixi, to whom, like Der Ling, many legends have been affixed over the past century. The book also depicts the changing worlds of Paris, Tokyo and the other international stages of Der Ling's development as woman and as mystery, and deals with the many teachers who made her who she was."--Jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-376) and index.

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"Imperial Masquerade: The Legend of Princess Der Ling, the first biography of one of the twentieth century's most intriguing cross-cultural personalities, traces not only the life of Princess Der Ling, in all its various transformations, but offers a fresh look at the woman she lionized and, ultimately, betrayed - the Empress Dowager Cixi, to whom, like Der Ling, many legends have been affixed over the past century. The book also depicts the changing worlds of Paris, Tokyo and the other international stages of Der Ling's development as woman and as mystery, and deals with the many teachers who made her who she was."--Jacket.

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