Empress Dowager Cixi

Empress Dowager Cixi

By
Jung Chang
Jung Chang
2013 • 436 pages

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A portrait of the nineteenth-century empress covers the coup that made her regent after her father's death, her defiance of centuries of traditions and formalities, and her role in introducing Western political ideas and technologies.

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