Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
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Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
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Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China is a 2013 biography written by Jung Chang, published by Alfred A. Knopf. 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. Chang argues that Cixi has been "deemed either tyrannical and vicious, or hopelessly incompetent—or both", and that this view is both simplistic and inaccurate. Chang portrays her as intellig
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2013 biography on Empress Dowager Cixi
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_Dowager_Cixi:_The_Concubine_Who_Launched_Modern_China
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2014-07-13T14:14:48Z
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2024-09-10T12:58:18Z
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