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's other Pettit translations include The Woman Who Commanded 500,000,000 Men (1929, a biography of Empress Dowager Tz'u-Hsi
), translated from La femme qui commanda à cinq cent millions d'hommes, Petal-of-the-Rose (1930), translated...
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Marina Warner
MW
published her first book, The Dragon Empress: The Life and Times of Tz'u-hsi, Empress Dowager of China
, 1835-1908, an historical study of a former concubine who ruled China during the late nineteenth...
