Empress dowager cixi 1835 1908 is the most important woman in chinese history. Packed with drama, fastpaced and gripping, empress dowager cixi is both a panoramic depiction of the birth of modern china and an intimate portrait of a woman. At the age of sixteen, in a nationwide selection for royal consorts, cixi was chosen as one of the emperors numerous concubines. The empress dowager cixi lived at the end of nineteenth century and the turn of the twentieth. Oct 30, 20 empress dowager cixi is a hefty work, close to 400 pages totalby the midway point alone, cixi is already 60 years old, with many assassination attempts yet to survive and massive reforms yet to. Empress dowager cixi was a chinese empress dowager and regent of the qing dynasty who through an exclusive group of corrupt and conservative officials controlled china for around halfacentury. Cixi, empress dowager of china, 18351908, china history. Simon sebag montefiore, bbc history magazine if there is one woman who mattered in the history of modern china, it is the empress dowager cixi her conventional image is queried in this detailed and beautifully narrated biography, which at long last restores the empress. Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider. Empress dowager cixi ebook by jung chang rakuten kobo. Cixi, empress dowager of china, 18351908, china history 18611912 biography, empresses china biography, china politics and government 19th century, china history 19th century, kina historia, china publisher london. At the age of sixteen, in a nationwide selection for royal consorts, cixi was chosen as one of the empero. She ruled china for decades and brought a medieval empire into the modern age. An imperial concubine of xianfeng emperor, who gave birth to his only son zaichun, she gradually emerged among the most powerful women in chinese history.
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Publication date 1905 topics cixi, empress dowager of china, 18351908 publisher new york, the century co. Empress dowager cixi jung chang haftad 9780099532392. Empress dowager cixi ebook strathcona county library. The future empress dowager cixi was born on the tenth day of the tenth lunar month in the 15th year of the reign of the daoguang emperor 29 november 1835. Being the history of the life and times of tzu hsi, compiled from state papers and the private diary of the comptroller of her household. Oct 27, 20 there are few leaders in modern chinese history more layered with prejudice begging to be stripped away than cixi, the dowager empress who ruled china for almost half a century until her death in. Her father was huizheng, a member of the bordered blue banner who held the title of a third class duke. Empress dowager cixi front range downloadable library.
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