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The empress of art
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Susan Jaques |
Traces the remarkable history of Catherine the Great's influential art collection and creation of the Hermitage, discussing how her cultural goals were part of a long-term plan to modernize and weste… |
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The Scorpion's Empress
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Yoshiyuki Ly |
After years of serving a corrupt government, Ser Videl, an idealistic paladin, learns that her younger sister is tangled in a dark scheme against Raj Mangala, the compassionate yet troubled empress o… |
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Shuo Xiaozhuang
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Lianhai Ji |
说到孝庄皇太后是一个大名鼎鼎的女人,这是很多读者都知道的.孝庄皇太后这个女人,她先后辅佐了从开国皇帝努尔哈赤到康熙在内的清初四个皇帝.从这一点上,我们完全可以说,如果没有了孝庄,明清之际中国的历史--甚至整个中国的历史就很有可能要改写. |
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Da Ming xian hou
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Haiying Zhang |
她,是仁慈,善良,俭朴,爱民的一代贤后;她敢于在明太祖施行暴政时进行劝谏,保全了许多忠臣良将的性命;她善待后宮嫔妃,不为娘家谋私利开创了明朝后宮和外戚不干政的风气.她就是明朝开国皇帝朱元璋的结发妻子马秀英--马皇后. |
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Dragon Lady
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Sterling Seagrave |
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… |
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The Hidden Stars
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Madeline Howard |
More than a century ago, the cataclysmic struggle between the wizards and the mages ended in their mutual destruction -- leveling great cities and reducing grand palaces to dust. From the vast gravey… |
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