Q, being the fourth, my last empress, has few rights or honors that way, though i will have more say after an heir is born of my first empress, per Grandpa's advisement. lt's the bargain agreed upon when l was granted permission to take ...
Author: Da Chen
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 9780307952707
Category: Fiction
Page: 288
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A sweeping story of passion and obsession, set against the upheavals of nineteenth-century imperial China, by the New York Times bestselling author Da Chen When Samuel Pickens’s great love tragically loses her life, Samuel travels the globe, Annabelle always on his mind. Eventually, he comes face-to-face with the mirror image of his obsession in the last place he would expect and must discover her secrets and decide how far he will go for a woman he loves. Da Chen immerses the reader in the world of the Chinese imperial palace, filled with ghosts and grief, where bewitching concubines, treacherous eunuchs, and fierce warlords battle for supremacy. Chen takes us deeply into an epic saga of nineteenth-century China, where one man searches for his destiny and a forbidden love.
Author: Philip Walsingham SergeantPublish On: 1907
Being the Life of the Empress Eugenie, Wife of Napoleon III. Philip Walsingham Sergeant. laying more fully at your feet and to restrict myself , on an occasion which overwhelms me with so much honour , to a loyal tribute of my emotions ...
In telling this story ( which is quoted here almost in his own words ) Ting Pao - chuan added the following comment : ' The readiness with which my brother carried out the order of decapitation was determined , not only by his zeal in ...
I spent my last rendezvous drinking tea and listening to the empress describing her last trip to Cairo, where, as she did every year, she had honored her husband's beloved memory at the Grand Rifa'i Mosque. Her stoicism in the face of ...
Author: Cyrus Kadivar
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9789774168260
Category: Iran
Page: 402
View: 395
In Farewell Shiraz, Kadivar tells the story of his family and childhood against the tumultuous backdrop of twentieth-century Iran, from the 1905-1907 Constitutional Revolution to the fall of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, before presenting accounts of his meetings with key witnesses to the Shah's fall and the rise of Khomeini. Each of the people interviewed provides a richly detailed picture of the momentous events that took place and the human drama behind them.
Based on unpublished journals and correspondence and encompassing the years from 1876 to 1939, a compelling biography traces the life and times of Grand Duchess Victoria Melita, a defiant and liberated woman who transcended the rigid ...
Author: Michael John Sullivan
Publisher: Random House Incorporated
ISBN: UOM:39015041089197
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 473
View: 350
Based on unpublished journals and correspondence and encompassing the years from 1876 to 1939, a compelling biography traces the life and times of Grand Duchess Victoria Melita, a defiant and liberated woman who transcended the rigid confines of European royalty of her era. 25,000 first printing.
Many were involved in the production of my first book , The Last Empress , but once again deserve my grateful thanks for their persistent support . I count it a privilege to thank Grand Duchess Marie Vladimirovna of Russia , the head of ...
Author: Greg King
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: WISC:89073642084
Category: Murder
Page: 306
View: 500
On 16th December 1916 Rasputin visited the palace of the second-richest man in Russia, Prince Felix Youssoupov. Leading a group of conspirators, the Prince apparently set out to murder him. This account of Rasputin's death is based on material in recently released St Petersburg police files, including death photographs which are included in the book. It addresses topics such as the identity of the conspirators and their motives, whether Rasputin and Youssoupov were having a homosexual affair, and whether the prince castrated Rasputin.
If for South Korea "global" is synonymous with glamorous cultural success, in each context it is precisely the return to the local which permits global fetishism.
Author: Hyunjung Lee
Publisher:
ISBN: OCLC:243471779
Category: Last empress, the musical
Page: 414
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Using South Korea's transnational performances as a case-study, this dissertation examines the cultural implications of the much-celebrated Korean model of national development. Starting with two contemporary South Korean performances--The Last Empress, the Musical (1995), and Nanta [Cookin'] (1997), a nonverbal performance--I explore how the producers' commitments to South Korea's cultural development are manifested in these productions. Situating these performances within the South Korean social context of the mid-1990s, I explore how the reinvention of Korean traditional cultures represents both national capacity and responds to calls for globalism without losing Korean identity. In the first chapter, my analysis of The Last Empress illustrates how local desire for global success resulted in a perpetuation of a Broadway-style musical in a Korean mode. I argue that, while the play utilizes its female character's pioneering image to claim a place for the musical in the global era, it simultaneously pulls her back into the traditional domain. With Nanta [Cookin'] in the following chapter, I argue that the production's commercial accomplishment lies in its strategic blending of pan-Asian cultural elements and the use of food without language which well co-operated with the burgeoning cultural tourism industry in South Korea. Extending my argument further, I conclude with an analysis of global-national interplay as they were played out at the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup. As a way of understanding the nationalistic fervor during the event, I suggest that the mass festive rally functions as a "social performance." In these performances, Korean nationalism, conjoined with global desire, was reconfigured through spontaneous gatherings, styles, fashions, expressions, and gestures. Like its theatrical counterparts, the World Cup rally insists on Korean-ness as what qualifies South Korea to be a global player. I conclude by offering the concept, "global fetishism," to explicate the complex and even contradictory assimilation of the national into the global in these performances. They are showcases for how globalization taps into the local rhetoric of development, charged by South Korea's inherent nationalism. If for South Korea "global" is synonymous with glamorous cultural success, in each context it is precisely the return to the local which permits global fetishism.
( Comes down the steps ) I give this last Empress— ( interrupting ) I understood that from supreme moment to you — my husband , my masterthe moment you asked me to sit here . my God . ( He looks up and turns to her ) Come , Emperor- ...
( Comes down the steps ) I give this last Empress— ( interrupting . I understood that from supreme moment to you — my husband , my masterthe moment you asked me to sit here . my God . ( He looks up and turns to her ) Come , Emperor- ...