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Empress dowager cixi 18351908 is the most important woman in chinese history. Drawing on newly available sources, jung chang comprehensively overturns cixi s reputation as a conservative despot. Her books have been translated into over 40 languages and sold more than 15 million copies outside mainland china where they are banned. When he died in 1861, their fiveyearold son succeeded to the throne.
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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. Jung chang comprehensively overturns the conventional view of cixi as a diehard conservative and cruel despot and also takes the reader into the depths of her splendid summer palace and the harem of beijings forbidden city, where she lived surrounded by eunuchs with one of whom she fell in love, with tragic consequences. Empress dowager cixi kindle edition by chang, jung. At the age of sixteen, in a nationwide selection for royal consorts, cixi was chosen as one of the empero. It opens a window onto a time and society about which i know very little. She was a red guard briefly at the age of fourteen and then worked as a peasant, a barefoot doctor, a steelworker, and an electrician before becoming an englishlanguage student and, later. A new york times notable book an npr best book of the year in 1852, at age sixteen, cixi was chosen as one of emperor xianfengs numerous concubines. She was a red guard briefly at the age of fourteen. Her books have been translated into more than forty languages and sold more than fifteen million copies outside mainland china, where they are both banned.