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List of Illustrations | |
Foreword | |
Part I | |
"The marriage, I believe, was a love affair..." | p. 3 |
Culture clash | p. 15 |
"A noisy family of English-speaking children..." | p. 23 |
Beijing to Tokyo | p. 35 |
Samurai in pinstripes | p. 43 |
Chrysanthemums and politics | p. 55 |
Back to China, forward to France | p. 69 |
La ville lumiere | p. 79 |
Chinese powder keg | p. 91 |
Dancing with Isadora | p. 99 |
"The golden goddess of tragedy" | p. 105 |
Scandal | p. 113 |
Part II | |
Empress Dowager Cixi | p. 123 |
Garden of Nurtured Harmony | p. 129 |
Lady of the court | p. 143 |
Eunuchs and jewels | p. 149 |
"A very precious child" | p. 157 |
Rumblings in paradise | p. 167 |
The Forbidden City | p. 175 |
Cat's eyes and big feet | p. 187 |
A portrait for the Empress | p. 193 |
Hungry ghosts | p. 203 |
Imperial birthday | p. 215 |
War clouds | p. 231 |
"First-class female official" | p. 239 |
Part III | |
East is West, West is East | p. 253 |
Flapper "princess" | p. 259 |
"To others she may have been cruel..." | p. 265 |
On the defense | p. 273 |
Scheherazade of the Hotel Wagons-Lits | p. 283 |
"...she means to educate Americans..." | p. 295 |
Squeeze money | p. 303 |
China reborn | p. 313 |
Princess of patriots | p. 321 |
Legacy | p. 329 |
Notes | p. 341 |
Family Tree | p. 366 |
Bibliography | p. 367 |
Index | p. 377 |
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