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Title: China under the Empress Dowager

Being the history of the life and times of Tzŭ Hsi

Author: J. O. P. Bland

Sir E. Backhouse

Release date: November 4, 2023 [eBook #72032]

Language: English

Original publication: Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co, 1910

Credits: Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

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CHINA UNDER THE EMPRESS
DOWAGER

The “Holy Mother,” Her Majesty Tzŭ Hsi.

(From a Photograph taken in 1903.)

CHINA UNDER THE
EMPRESS DOWAGER

BEING THE HISTORY OF THE LIFE AND
TIMES OF TZŬ HSI

COMPILED FROM STATE PAPERS AND THE
PRIVATE DIARY OF THE COMPTROLLER OF
HER HOUSEHOLD

BY
J. O. P. BLAND and E. BACKHOUSE

ILLUSTRATED

PHILADELPHIA
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
London: WILLIAM HEINEMANN
MCMX

Printed in England