Imperial Masquerade: The Legend of Princess Der Ling by Grant Hayter-Menzies
The 2008 biography of the enigmatic highborn Eurasian author (Two Years in the Forbidden City being the best known of her seven books) who served as translator and lady-in-waiting to China's Empress Dowager Cixi.
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 woman’s experience of living not just between two cultures—that of China and the West—but among many worlds: social, religious, moral, political.
- Grant Hayter-Menzies
- Grant Hayter-Menzies
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4 comments:
i love to see you here!
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She sounds like the perfect dinner companion.
Welcome back, by the way.
hello darling (sooo good to see you)
& China Girl is perfect for this Empress. I Bet this is great reading.
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