{"product_id":"dragon-lady-isbn-9780679733690","title":"Dragon Lady","description":"The author of The Soong Dynasty gives us our most vivid and reliable biography yet of the Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, remembered through the exaggeration and falsehood of legend as the ruthless Manchu concubine who seduced and murdered her way to the Chinese throne in 1861.\"An all-out revisionist assault on the established perception of Tzu Hsi...Seagrave provides as sad and outrageous a record of imperialism as can be found anywhere in the world.\"\u003cbr\u003e--The San Francisco Chronicle\u003cb\u003eSterling Seagrave\u003c\/b\u003e grew up in Asia on the Burma–China border. Seagrave spent many years as an investigative reporter in Asia and had his writing published in the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLife\u003c\/i\u003e, and many other publications. He is the author of the bestselling \u003ci\u003eThe Soong Dynasty\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a top choice of the Book of the Month Club. His other books include \u003ci\u003eYellow Rain: Journey Through the Terror of Chemical Warfare\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRed Sky in the Morning\u003c\/i\u003e, which he cowrote with his wife, Peggy, who is his longtime collaborator. They live in France.Author of The Soong Dynasty","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303881232613,"sku":"NP9780679733690","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679733690.jpg?v=1767725638","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/dragon-lady-isbn-9780679733690","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}