Empress dowager cixi by jung chang biography
Empress dowager cixi by jung chang biography!
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
biography on Empress Dowager Cixi
| Author | Jung Chang |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Biography |
| Set&#;in | China |
| Publisher | Alfred A.
Knopf |
Publication date | |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
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Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China is a biography written by Jung Chang, published by Alfred A.
Knopf.
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Chang presents a sympathetic portrait of the Empress Dowager Cixi, who unofficially controlled the Manchu Qing dynasty in China for 47 years, from to her death in Chang argues that Cixi has been "deemed either tyrannical and vicious, or hopelessly incompetent—or both", and that this view is both simplistic and inaccurate.
Chang portrays her as intelligent, open-minded, and a proto-feminist limited by a xenophobic and deeply conservative imperial bureaucracy. Although Cixi is often accused of reactionary conservatism (especially for her treatment of the