Empress Dowager Cixi strikes a pose Photo courtesy of the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Empress Dowager Cixi is known historically as one of the most powerful women in the world.

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EMPRESS DOWAGER CIXI:THE CONCUBINE WHO LAUNCHED MODERN CHINA By Jung Chang Alfred A. Knopf, $30, 464 pages The Empress Dowager Cixi ruled China, mostly directly, from the death of her husband, Emperor ...

This piece originally appeared on asiasociety.org. Jung Chang’s new biography Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013) recounts the remarkable life of ...

WASHINGTON — Cixi, the Grand Empress Dowager, led China for more than half a century until her death in 1908. In 1903, she opened up to one Western influence: photography. The Smithsonian’s Arthur M.

Few women have had as long and uninterrupted sway over Chinese politics and society as Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908). Her story is more fraught and high-octane than the finest Peking Opera, of ...

Jung Chang, in conversation about her latest book, Empress Dowager Cixi, with Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society. From author and historian Jung ...