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Book Excerpt: 'Empress Dowager Cixi' by Jung Chang
In her groundbreaking new biography, Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013), Jung Chang tells the extraordinary life story of China's Empress Cixi ...
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Cixi: from 16-year-old concubine to Empress Dowager of China
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 ...
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Western Kitchen, Cixi Private Kitchen
Toward the end of the Qing Dynasty, Empress Dowager Cixi arrogated all powers onto herself. This period, called the Guangxu Xuantong Reign, was China's darkest and most corrupt political period.
The Chinese scholar who threw himself in a well, and the palace consort ‘martyred’ in one
In 1900 a scholar jumped in a Beijing well out of shame. A palace consort died in a Forbidden City well too. Was she ...
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Empress Dowager Cixi
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.
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Jung 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. How did you pick Empress ...
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Troubled Times at the Beginning of the Century (6)
Empress Dowager Cixi was fleeing westwards. The people in the capital were suffering from the war. The Eight-Power Allied Forces became the dominators in Beijing. Japanese soldiers plundered money and ...
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Eastern Qing Mausoleums (Qingdongling)
The mausoleums of Emperor Qianlong, called the Yuling, and Empress Dowager Cixi, called the Dingdongling, have been renovated and are open to visitors. The Qing Dynasty attained its greatest power ...
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Wendy Moonan
objets d’art tell the stories of Empress Cixi and four other of the most powerful Qing dynasty women ...
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Troubled Times at the Beginning of the Century (2)
The decision was plotted by Empress Dowager Cixi. After she began to hold court from behind a screen in 1873, she remained the actual ruler of the country. She caused the loss of large tracts of China ...
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Jung Chang
Like Wild Swans it is banned in China. 2013 saw the publication of Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China. Here Chang reassesses the reputation of the formidable 19th ...