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Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
by Jung Chang
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Empress Dowager Cixi The Concubine Who Launched Modern China Empress Dowager Cixi The Concubine Who Launched Modern China Chang presents a sympathetic portrait of the Empress Dowager Cixi who unofficially controlled the Manchu Qing Dynasty in China for 47 years from 1861 to her death in 1908 Chang argues that Cixi has been deemed either tyrannical and vicious or hopelessly incompetent—or both Empress Dowager Cixi The Concubine Who Launched Modern China A New York Times Notable Book Empress Dowager Cixi 1835–1908 is the most important woman in Chinese history She ruled China for decades and brought a medieval empire into the modern age At the age of sixteen in a nationwide selection for royal consorts Cixi was chosen as one of the emperor’s numerous concubines Book Review Empress Dowager Cixi The Concubine Who The Manchu Empress Dowager Cixi 1835–1908 is generally thought of as a conservative figure in Chinese history incapable of defending China’s interests in the second half of the 19th century Empress Dowager Cixi The Concubine Who Launched Modern Empress Dowager Cixi The Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang – review It was filled by the child Pu Yi the last emperor in 1911 the empire fell and Pu Yi abdicated the following year China began the long bloody and unfinished process of trying to become a modern republican state Empress Dowager Cixi The concubine who launched modern China Empress Dowager Cixi The concubine who launched modern China Much more than a Chinese Anne Boleyn Cixi engineered a palace coup to place her young son on the throne at the age of just 25 By Rana Mitter EMPRESS DOWAGER CIXI THE CONCUBINE WHO LAUNCHED MODERN The Empress Dowager Cixi lived a remarkable life that is fully captured in Jung Chang’s 2013 biography EMPRESS DOWAGER CIXI THE CONCUBINE WHO LAUNCHED MODERN CHINA Formally Cixi had no power but she succeeded in mounting a coup against the regents with Empress Zhen the late emperor’s principal wife before he was buried
