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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Chang, Jung, 1952- author.     Subjects     Cixi, Empress dowager of China, 1835-1908.     Empresses -- China -- Biography.     China -- Politics and government -- 19th century.     China -- History -- 1861-1912.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Chang, Jung, 1952- author.       by title:      Empress Dowager Cixi...         MARC Display

Empress Dowager Cixi : the concubine who launched modern China / Jung Chang. by Chang, Jung, 1952- author. New York : Anchor Books, 2014. Subjects Cixi, Empress dowager of China, 1835-1908.   Empresses -- China -- Biography.   China -- Politics and government -- 19th century.   China -- History -- 1861-1912. ISBN:  9780307456700 (trade paperback) 0307456706 (trade paperback) Description:  xiii, 436 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm Edition:  First Anchor Books edition. Contents:  I. The imperial concubine in stormy times (1835-1861) -- Concubine to an emperor (1835-56) -- From the Opium War to the burning of the old Summer Palace (1839-60) -- Emperor Xianfeng dies (1860-61) -- The coup that changed China -- II. Reigning behind her sons' throne (1861-1875) -- First step on the long road to modernity (1861-9) -- Virgin journeys to the west (1861-71) -- Love doomed (1869) -- A vendetta against the west (1869-71) -- Life and death of Emperor Tongzhi (1861-75) -- III. Ruling through an adopted son (1875-1889) -- A three-year-old is made emperor (1875) -- Modernisation accelerates (1875-89) -- Defender of the empire (1875-89) -- IV. Guangxu alienated from Cixi (1875-94) -- The Summer Palace (1886-94) -- In retirement and in leisure (1889-94) -- War with Japan (1894) -- A peace that ruined China (1895) -- The scramble for China (1895-8) -- V. To the front of the stage (1898-1901) -- The reforms of 1898 (1898) -- A plot to kill Cixi (September 1898) -- Desperate to dethrone her adopted son (1898-1900) -- To war against the world powers: with the Boxers (1899-1900) -- Fighting to a bitter end (1900) -- Flight (1900-1) -- Remorse (1900-1) -- VI. The real revolution of modern China (1901-1908) -- Return to Beijing (1901-2) -- Making friends with westerners (1902-7) -- Cixi's revolution (1902-8) -- The vote! (1905-8) -- Coping with insurgents, assassins and the Japanese (1902-8) -- Deaths (1908) -- Epilogue: China after Empress Dowager Cixi. Requests:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Makawao Public Library Adult Nonfiction 951.03509 Cixi Ch Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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