Sterling Seagrave is best-selling author of The Soong Dynasty.
Seagrave grew up on the China-Burma border, the fifth generation of an American family living in the Orient for nearly two centuries (his father was Dr. Gordon Seagrave, author of Burma Surgeon). As an invstigative journalist in Asia, he contributed to many major newspapers and magazines. His other books include Yellow Rain, The Marcos Dynasty and Dragon Lady. He and his wife amd collaborator, Peggy Sawyer Seagrave, live in Europe. World map showing location of Asia Asia is the central and eastern part of Eurasia, defined by subtracting Europe from Eurasia. ... World map showing location of Europe When considered a continent, Europe is the worlds second-smallest continent in terms of area, with an area of 10,600,000 km² (4,140,625 square miles), making it larger than Australia only. ...
She is popularly remembered as a ruthless dictator, but in the book Dragon Lady author SterlingSeagrave presents her as a rather meek creature who was manipulated by her advisers and slandered by Western writers.
However, modern writer SterlingSeagrave says there was no actual siege; Chinese forces were actually there to protect the foreign legations, and most of the legation quarter "was subjected only to intermittent harassing gunfire." Nonetheless, the foreigners felt they were under siege.
Seagrave says the Pearl Concubine's fate is unknown, but it is possible that she "was done in by the eunuchs on their own initiative, or flung herself down the well."
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