But the newly named Empress Dowager Cixi quickly ousted them on fabricated charges of incompetence. She then issued imperial edicts "from behind the curtains" that she and Dowager Empress Cian ...

2013 saw the publication of Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched ... as Radio 4’s Book of the Week in September 2013. Jung Chang was born in 1952. After studying English at Sichuan ...

A new book on 19th century China tells how a low-ranking and unpopular member of the emperor's harem came to lead one-third of humanity 365 Bloor Street East, Toronto ...

The Diplomat’s Justin McDonnell spoke with author Jung Chang about her latest book, Empress Dowager Cixi, a biography of the “most important woman in Chinese history.

He is likened to Empress Dowager Cixi, who in 1900 effectively declared war on the Western powers in China, a disastrous move that helped accelerate the collapse of imperial China. To many Chinese ...