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Empress Dowager CIXI: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

Name: Empress Dowager CIXI: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
Brand: Anchor Books
SKU: 9780307456700
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Contributors:

Jung Chang

Publisher:

Anchor Books

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

History, Biography & Autobiography

Book Subcategory:

Asia, Royalty, Women

Book Topic:

China

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Release Date:

2014-09-09

ISBN 13:

9780307456700

Weight:

1.55 lbs

Size:

9.10 x 6.10 x 1.40 inches

Pages:

464

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Description

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 Xianfeng's numerous concubines. When he died in 1861, their five-year-old son succeeded to the throne. Cixi at once launched a coup against her son's regents and placed herself as the true source of power--governing through a silk screen that separated her from her male officials.
Drawing on newly available sources, Jung Chang comprehensively overturns Cixi's reputation as a conservative despot. Cixi's extraordinary reign saw the birth of modern China. Under her, the ancient country attained industries, railways, electricity, and a military with up-to-date weaponry. She abolished foot-binding, inaugurated women's liberation, and embarked on a path to introduce voting rights. Packed with drama, this groundbreaking biography powerfully reforms our view of a crucial period in China's--and the world's--history.

About the Author
Jung Chang is the best-selling author of Wild Swans, which The Asian Wall Street Journal called the most widely read book about China, and Mao: The Unknown Story (with Jon Halliday), which was described by Time as "an atom bomb of a book." 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. She was born in China in 1952 and moved to Britain in 1978. She lives in London.