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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] : Books on Tape, 2013. 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=731B778C-8359-43C3-9ABE-772DAB865376 This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://excerpts.contentreserve.com/FormatType-25/1191-1/1300799-EmpressDowagerCixi.wma Electronic Resource http://excerpts.contentreserve.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/1300799-EmpressDowagerCixi.mp3 Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/1191-1/{731B778C-8359-43C3-9ABE-772DAB865376}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9780804149044 (electronic audio bk.) 0804149046 (electronic audio bk.) Description:  1 online resource (1 sound file (16 hr., 34 min., 44 sec.)) : digital Edition:  Unabridged. Requests:  0 Summary:  From a coauthor of the best-selling Mao: The Unknown Story, the dramatic, epic biography of the woman who ruled China for fifty years, overcoming centuries of traditions and formalities--and found ways to modernize China, exposing its culture to western political ideas and technology. Empress Dowager Cixi led an intense and singular life. Chosen at the age of twelve to be a concubine by the Emperor Xianfeng, she gives birth to his only male heir, who at four years old is designated emperor when his father dies in 1861. Enlisting the help of Xianfeng's widow, Cixi orchestrates a coup that ousts the appointed regents and makes herself the regent on behalf of her son. Her son ends up dying in his mid-twenties and Cixi is able to designate a young nephew as the emperor--continuing her reign, which stretches to her death in 1908. In this remarkable chronicle, Chang gives us a portrait of Cixi that is complex and riveting: her ruthlessness in fighting off rivals; her startling curiosity to learn all she can, not only about China (she is not allowed to leave the court compound); her reliance on her advisers and officials, often Westerners who she has placed in key positions of responsibility; and her sensitivity and desire to preserve the distinctiveness of China's past. Chang makes a compelling case that Cixi was one of the most formidable--and enlightened--rulers of a nation.   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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