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100 _aChang, Jung,
_d 1952-
245 _aEmpress Dowager Cixi :
_bthe concubine who launched modern China /
_cJung Chang.
250 _aFirst American edition.
260 _aLondon :
_bRandom House,
_c2013.
300 _axiii, 436 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates :
_billustrations (some color), map ;
_c25 cm
336 _atext
_2 rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2 rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2 rdacarrier
500 _a"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 403-415) and index.
505 _aI. 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 -- A vendetta against the west (1869-71) -- Life and death of Emperor Tongzhi (1861-1875) -- III. Ruling through an adopted son (1875-1889) -- A three-year-old is made emperor -- Modernisation accelerates (1875-89) -- Defender of the empire (1875-89) -- IV. Emperor Guangxu takes over (1889-1898) -- The education of Emperor Guangxu (1875-94) -- The Summer Palace (1886-94) -- In retirement and in leisure (1889-94) -- War with Japan -- A peace that ruined China -- The scramble for China (1895-8) -- V. 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 -- 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 insurgencies, assassins and the Japanese (1902-8) -- Deaths -- Epilogue: China after Empress Dowager Cixi.
600 _aCixi,
_cEmpress dowager of China,
_d 1835-1908.
650 _aEmpresses
_z China
_v Biography.
650 _aChina
_x Politics and government
_y 19th century.
650 _aChina
_x History
_y 1861-1912.
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