Empress Dowager CIXI: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang

Empress Dowager CIXI: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

Jung Chang

464 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
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A New York Times Notable BookAn 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 co...

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