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Women’s March Week: (Archives) How a Woman Modernized China: A Review of Empress Dowager Cixi
Pearl Buck once observed that those who hated the Empress Dowager Cixi were “more articulate than those who loved her.” Jung Chang’s recent biography, Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China, argues that Cixi has long been misunderstood, … Continue reading