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The Emperor has brutally murdered one of his concubines, something which, everyone admits, he has every right to do.... Or did he? In the bitterly cold north Ch
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Pages: 345
Authors: Norman A. Kutcher
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-07-31 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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Eunuch and Emperor in the Great Age of Qing Rule offers a new interpretation of eunuchs and their connection to imperial rule in the first century and a half of
The Female Eunuch
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Pages: 541
Authors: Germaine Greer
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-02-06 - Publisher: Harper Collins

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The publication of Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch in 1970 was a landmark event, raising eyebrows and ire while creating a shock wave of recognition in women
Inside the World of the Eunuch
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The history of Qing palace eunuchs is defined by a tension between the role eunuchs were meant to play and the life they intended to live. This study tells the
The Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem
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Authors: Jane Hathaway
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-08-30 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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A study of the chief of the African eunuchs who guarded the sultan's harem in Istanbul under the Ottoman Empire.