The Empress and Mrs. Conger
Posted: February 16th, 2011 | No Comments »Grant Hayter-Menzie’s new book –The Empress and Mrs. Conger: The Uncommon Friendship of Two Women and Two Worlds – traces the parallel lives of the Empress Dowager Cixi and American diplomat’s wife Sarah Pike Conger in Peking. As usual blurb below:
“Grant Hayter-Menzies brings his talent for recreating the material, cultural and mental textures of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to bear on the story of Sarah Conger. He presents the reader not only a story, not only characters, but a world.” – Pamela Kyle Crossley, author of The Manchus
- Traces the parallel lives of the Empress Dowager Cixi and American diplomat’s wife Sarah Pike Conger, which converged to alter their perspectives of each other and each other’s worlds.
– Uses rare and unpublished letters, diaries and photographs, benefiting from the cooperation and assistance of family of Sarah Conger and the Empress Dowager.
-Â Treats of the topical subject which dogged Mrs. Conger till the end of her life: did she or did she not purchase and sell goods she knew to be loot?
Grant Hayter-Menzies‘s first book for Hong Kong University Press was Imperial Masquerade: The Legend of Princess Der Ling. He is also the biographer of stage and screen stars Charlotte Greenwood and Billie Burke.
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