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Two Years in the Forbidden City
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Der Ling served her Empress for two years inside the walls of Gu Gong, Peking's Forbidden City, a walled palace built in the year 1407, and which had been the seat of government for 24 Chinese emperors. Her intimate observations of court life under the Empress Dowager, aunt to China's last emperor, P'u Yi, allow a rare look into life in a time and place still shrouded in mystery.
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Title of
ebook: Two Years in the Forbidden City
ISBN: 9781931305440
Publisher:
New Albion Press
Internet download file size: 618 kb
Pages: 400
Released online for download: 12-03-2001
Author of eBook: Der Ling, Princess
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Asia - China
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