R$ 26,80 (ebook, The Manchu Empress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908) is generally thought of as a conservative figure in Chinese history, incapable of defending China’s interests in the second half of the 19th century, when China lost its position as the world’s largest economy.Īgainst this broad consensus, Jung Chang has written a lively biography that depicts Cixi (pronounced “Tseshi”) as quite the opposite. London: Vintage Digital (2013), 528 pages. A photograph portrait Cixi sent to US President Theodore Roosevelt in 1904, thanking him for his good wishes for her 70th birthday.īook review: Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang.
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