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New York [1929], Dodd. Green cloth, end paper illustrations, very solid, 322p., 6 b. w. illustrations by S. Pinkus, gold stamped decorations,15 22.5 cm., clean, bright & solid copy, bit of spine hinge & corner rubbing. * * FIRST EDITION * * . *** **** *** . . A PRIMARY RESOURCE BY A CHINESE LADY IN WAITING . . . TO OTHE LAST DOWAGER EMPRESS CIXI . . . * * FIRST EDITION * * . * KOWTOW: A traditional Chinese gesture of deep respect where one kneels and bows so low that their head touches the ground. In Chinese culture, it is the highest sign of reverence. The word comes from the Chinese KOUTOU, is a combination of the verb Kou ("to knock") and the noun Tou ("head.") . *** Some chapter titles: Memories of Sha-Ssu. The Solemn Courtyard, Foreign Devil-Doll, Through the teakwood panels, Those terrible Manchus, Green broadcloth, Yamen walls, War clouds, Audience with Prince Kung, Legation opening, China's great statesmen, On to Paris and others. . * This is a primary account of the author's life. It also contains her fascinating insights to many famous people, including Sun Yat Sen, Isadora Duncan, Elizabeth Queen, the German Minister to Japan, President Loubet of France and several others, whom she met or observed at the Chinese court. . * 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 [De Ling 1885-1944]: She 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.] . She authored eight best-selling books about her life in the Chinese Royal court, and accounts and stories about China. She was married to an American, T.C. White, a mining expert. . We provide a photo-copy of the newspaper article from September 1935, Los Angeles, California. This shows the author and her husband after 28 years of married life. This is loosely laid inside the book. . Her other titles also include insights to her life in the Palace as well as other fascinating perspectives on China and her life & travels in China. . *** CONDITION: Generic: This copy is bound in the original Jade-green pictorial cloth, with gold-stamped pictorial cover and spine titles. The books is very clean and solid, with very little wear, contents are pristine, no issues. . As usual for a book nearly 100 years old there is a touch of minor signs of wear, edge & corner mild rubbing and the like. Any specific issues are pointed out in the listing of each individual copy. . *** Color photos are posted to our website. . *** REFERENCE: . 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." . -wikipedia-org/wiki/Princess_Der_Ling . * Visit our website where other titles are available with photos. . *.
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