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Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

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 | #235164 in Books |  Chang Jung |  2014-09-09 |  2014-09-09 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.16 x1.29 x6.13l,.81 | File type: PDF | 464 pages

 | Empress Dowager CIXI The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

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||8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| Turbulences of orchid power|By H. Schneider|Author Jung Chang was very successful with her semi private history of 20th century China, the Wild Swans. She upset some readers with her next book, a very critical and very readable bio of Mao.
Now she comes out with a new surprise, a rehabilitation of the much reviled Empress Dowager Cixi.

Cixi, in this book, is not|From Publishers Weekly|Her original first name was considered too inconsequential to enter in the court registry, yet she became the most powerful woman in 19th-century China. Born in 1835 to a prominent Manchu family, Cixi was chosen in 1852 by the young Chines

A New York Times Notable Book
An NPR Best Book of the Year

In 1852, at age sixteen, Cixi was chosen as one of Emperor Xianfeng’s numerous concubines. When he died in 1861, their five-year-old son succeeded to the throne. Cixi at once launched a coup against her son’s regents and placed herself as the true source of power—governing through a silk screen that separated her from her male officials.
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