The Empress and Mrs. Conger: The Uncommon Friendship of Two Women and Two Worlds by Grant Hayter-Menzies

The Empress and Mrs. Conger: The Uncommon Friendship of Two Women and Two Worlds

Grant Hayter-Menzies

368 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

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In winter 1902, in the ruins of post-Boxer Uprising Beijing, two women from two different worlds joined hands in friendship -- the former concubine and legendary tyrant Empress Dowager Cixi, and the Midwest-born, devoutly Christian diplomat's wife...

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