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Discover the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age, from the bestselling author of Wild Swans

In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi – the most important woman in Chinese history – brought a medieval empire into the modern age. Under her, the ancient country attained virtually all the attributes of a modern state and it was she who abolished gruesome punishments like ‘death by a thousand cuts’ and put an end to foot-binding. 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 Beijing’s Forbidden City, where she lived surrounded by eunuchs – with one of whom she fell in love, with tragic consequences.

Packed with drama, fast-paced and gripping, it is both a panoramic depiction of the birth of modern China and an intimate portrait of a woman as the concubine to a monarch, as the absolute ruler of a third of the world’s population, and as a unique stateswoman.

‘Powerful’ Simon Sebag Montefiore

‘Truly authoritative’ New York Times

‘Wonderful’ Sunday Times

**Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Biography Prize**

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Empress Dowager Cixi The Concubine Who Launched Modern China eBook Jung Chang Reviews :

Discover the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age, from the bestselling author of Wild Swans

In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi – the most important woman in Chinese history – brought a medieval empire into the modern age. Under her, the ancient country attained virtually all the attributes of a modern state and it was she who abolished gruesome punishments like ‘death by a thousand cuts’ and put an end to foot-binding. 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 Beijing’s Forbidden City, where she lived surrounded by eunuchs – with one of whom she fell in love, with tragic consequences.

Packed with drama, fast-paced and gripping, it is both a panoramic depiction of the birth of modern China and an intimate portrait of a woman as the concubine to a monarch, as the absolute ruler of a third of the world’s population, and as a unique stateswoman.

‘Powerful’ Simon Sebag Montefiore

‘Truly authoritative’ New York Times

‘Wonderful’ Sunday Times

**Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Biography Prize**

ebook,Jung Chang,Empress Dowager Cixi The Concubine Who Launched Modern China,Vintage Digital,20th century history c 1900 to c 2000,ANF Biography,Asian history,BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic Regional / General,BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical,BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women,Biography non-fiction prose,Biography historical, political military,China,Diplomacy,HISTORY / Asia / China,Historia och arkeologi,Historische biografieen,History,History / General,Modern history to 20th century c 1700 to c 1900,Political leaders leadership,asia chinese history feminism imperial china james tait black prize biography true accounts; real life stories jon halliday mao zedong tse-tung wild swans bejing forbidden city; a brief history of dynasties china the silk roads peter frankopan yuan ming the art of war sun tzu; last empress anchi min xiran the good woman of china promise xiaolu guo; once upon a time in the east maoism julia lovell chinese thought from confucius to cook ding; roel sterk opium war when china rules the world martin jacques war peace; ideologies politics leadership leaders social sciences medieval monarchy; courtesan alexandra curry daughters of china,c 1800 to c 1900,c 1900 - c 1914,BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women,BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical,BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic Regional / General,HISTORY / Asia / China,History / General,Biography historical, political military,Political leaders leadership

Empress Dowager Cixi The Concubine Who Launched Modern China eBook Jung Chang

 

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