The Dragon Throne: China's Emperors from the Qin to the Manchu

Tentang Penulis Jonathan Fenby is a prolific writer on historical events and periods, chiefly on imperial, nationalist and modern China. He lived in Hong Kong between 1995 and 2000 and has written and lectured extensively on China. He is currently managing director of the China team at Trusted Sources, a marketing and consultancy firm based in London. Fenby is particularly interested in China ??s development after the repression and horrors of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, into the economic powerhouse we see today. His books, articles and lectures are informed by rigorous research and a strong grasp of the past. Historiographically, Fenby neither advances new theories or unveils new information; his work is a synthesis of existing primary and secondary sources. Fenby believes that modern China while progressing and modernizing rapidly, is nevertheless defined and sometimes constrained by its past. Chinese government and society in the 20th and 21st century is marked by contradictions, a word Fenby uses often. Deskripsi Produk In The Dragon Throne, Jonathan Fenby tells the extraordinary story of imperial China through its 157 emperors, from Qin Shi Huangdu, who crushed his rivals to take supreme power as the first emperor in 221 BC, until the final collapse of the faltering Manchu dynasty amidst the revolutionary chaos of the early twentieth century. The final emperor, the infant Puyi (r. 1908-12) ended his days as an assistant gardener in the very palace where he had been enthroned.