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Item Information       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 [electronic resource] : the concubine who launched modern China / Jung Chang. by Chang, Jung, 1952- author. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2013. Subjects Cixi, Empress dowager of China, 1835-1908.   Empresses -- China -- Biography.   China -- Politics and government -- 19th century.   China -- History -- 1861-1912. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=EE680470-0523-4324-AB3B-386049795422 This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/{EE680470-0523-4324-AB3B-386049795422}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9780385350372 (electronic bk.) 0385350376 (electronic bk.) Description:  1 online resource (xiii, 436 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps. Edition:  First American edition. Contents:  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 -- 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 (1861-1875) -- 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) -- Emperor Guangxu takes over (1889-1898). 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) -- To the front of the stage (1898-1901). The reforms of 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) -- 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 insurgencies, assassins, and the Japanese (1902-8) ; Deaths -- China after Empress Dowager Cixi. Requests:  0 Summary:  In this ground-breaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi fought against monumental obstacles to change China. Under her the ancient country attained virtually all the attributes of a modern state: industries, railways, electricity, telegraph, and an army and navy with up-to-date weaponry.   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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