But the newly named Empress Dowager Cixi quickly ousted them on fabricated charges of incompetence. She then issued imperial edicts "from behind the curtains" that she and Dowager Empress Cian ...
Toward the end of the Qing Dynasty, Empress Dowager Cixi arrogated all powers onto herself ... It was clearly recorded in a daily book who did the washing, who prepared the ingredients, and ...
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It was broadcast as a Book of the Week on Radio 4. Like Wild Swans it is banned in China. 2013 saw the publication of Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China. Here Chang ...
The Diplomat’s Justin McDonnell spoke with author Jung Chang about her latest book, Empress Dowager Cixi, a biography of the “most important woman in Chinese history.