Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China - Jung Chang Audiobook
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Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908) is the most important woman in Chinese history. She ruled China for decades and brought a medieval empire into the modern age.
At the age of 16, in a nationwide selection for royal consorts, Cixi was chosen as one of the emperor’s numerous concubines. When he died in 1861, their five-year-old son succeeded to the throne. Cixi at once launched a palace coup against the regents appointed by her husband and made herself the real ruler of China - behind the throne, literally, with a silk screen separating her from her officials who were all male.
In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how 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, the telegraph and an army and navy with up-to-date weaponry. It was she who abolished gruesome punishments like “death by a thousand cuts” and put an end to foot-binding. She inaugurated women’s liberation and embarked on the path to introduce parliamentary elections to China. Chang comprehensively overturns the conventional view of Cixi as a diehard conservative and cruel despot.
Cixi reigned during extraordinary times and had to deal with a host of major national crises: the Taiping and Boxer rebellions, wars with France and Japan - and an invasion by eight allied powers including Britain, Germany, Russia and the United States. Jung Chang not only records the Empress Dowager’s conduct of domestic and foreign affairs, but also takes the listener into the depths of her splendid Summer Palace and the harem of Beijing’s Forbidden City, where she lived surrounded by eunuchs - one of whom she fell in love, with tragic consequences. The world Chang describes here, in fascinating detail, seems almost unbelievable in its extraordinary mixture of the very old and the very new.
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| Creation Date: | Fri, 20 Mar 2015 21:05:20 -0400 |
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This post has 7 comments with rating of 3/5
March 21st, 2015
Nice one, Thank you
March 21st, 2015
Looke really interesting. Thank you for this one. :)
March 22nd, 2015
After reading a wikipedia entry about empress Cixi, this book seems to be just a pretty story and not really a historical account. Cixi certainly wasn’t a great reformer.
November 22nd, 2017
I’m not sure a wikipedia entry written in English by Western contributors has more nuance than a Chinese born multilingual woman who suffered greatly under Maoism and has every reason to look suspiciously at people who are (or were considered) tyrannical, but that’s your call, sluagh.
March 3rd, 2021
Anyone able to seed this? Thanks!
March 3rd, 2021
Gracias!
March 4th, 2022
This book is ridiculous. The historical account is muddled on this period of Chinese history. An insane man named Sir Edmund Blackwell destroyed countless Chinese records during the Boxer Rebellion. He created fake artifacts and documents in order to change the perception of China. The hidden hermit of peking by Tevor-Roper is a bio about him its hilarious. Roper is so moralistic that he cant address Blackwell’s homosexual preferences.
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