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New York 1929, Dodd. Yellow cloth, 347p., 22 b. w. photos, brilliant, clean & bright copy,a couple of fox spots on 2p., else contents brilliantly clean,no other issues, 14.5 x 21.5 cm., exceptionallly clean copy. * * SECOND EDITION * * . *** **** *** . . A PRIMARY ACCOUONT OF PRINCES DER LING . . . FIRST LADY IN WAITING TO THE LAST DOWAGER EMPRESS OF CHINA . . . The title of this book reflects the nickname "The Old Buddha" for the Last Dowager Empress, Tzu Hsi, who was known as a strong ruler who put down many rebellions. . * Essentially the personal reminiscences of the author's life as a lady in waiting to the last Empress of China T'zu His of China. A very fascinating primary insight into real life in the Chinese court. . * Princess Der Ling [Dé Líng 1885-1944] was a member of an old Chinese royal family and first lady in waiting to China's Last Dowager Empress Cixi [aka.: T'zu-Hsi/Tzu Hsi, or Hsiao-ch'en] and write of eight best-selling books about China. She was married to an American T.C. White, a mining expert. . We provide a photocopy of the newspaper article from September 1935, Los Angeles, California. This shows the author and her husband after 28 years of married life. This will be laid in the book. . * FROM WIKIPEDIA: "Daughter of a Manchu aristocrat, granddaughter of a Boston merchant, educated like a boy in the Confucian classics, a baptized Catholic blessed by the hand of Pope Leo XIII, a woman who donned chic Western fashions in China and her ceremonial court robes in the United States, and wife of an American soldier of fortune, Princess Der Ling was a fascinating human battleground of warring identities, a victim of the hallucinogenic effects of too much publicity, much of it prompted by Der Ling herself, and a figure whose life provides a glimpse into one Eurasian woman's experience of living not just between two cultures -that of China and the West -but among many different worlds: social, religious, moral, political. Imperial Masquerade: The Legend of Princess Der Ling, one of the twentieth century's most intriguing cross-cultural personalities, her life as Princess Der Ling, in all its various transformations, she lionized and, ultimately, betrayed -the Empress Dowager Cixi, to whom, like Der Ling, many legends have been affixed over the past century." . *** Color photos are posted to our website. . *** Other books by Der Ling are found on our website. . *** REFERENCE: . en-wikipedia-org/wiki/Princess_Der_Ling *.
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