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Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Changed China's Destiny. 1835–1908 – Jun Chang – Centerpoligraph – 2019 – ISBN 978-5-227-06380

Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Changed China's Destiny. 1835–1908
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Empress Dowager Cixi, one of history's greatest female rulers, held supreme power for 47 years as regent for three emperors of the Celestial Empire. During her reign, numerous industries were founded "from behind the scenes," and the first railways and telegraph communications emerged. It was Cixi who abolished painful corporal punishment, banned the binding of girls' feet, and granted women the right to education and employment. The empress dowager was beloved by her people; ministers of Western powers considered her "the equal of Catherine the Great in Russia and Elizabeth in England." However, as a result of the slanderous activities of her political opponents, Cixi earned a reputation as a reckless tyrant and an opponent of modernization. This book by the authoritative historian Jiong Chang, based on the memoirs of contemporaries and irrefutable archival evidence, is not only the most comprehensive biography of Cixi but also a "vindication" of China's most controversial ruler.
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