Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

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Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern ChinaDiscover the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age, from the bestselling author of Wild Swans In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi the most important woman in Chinese history brought a medieval empire into the modern age. Under her, the ancient country attained virtually all the attributes of a modern state and it was she who abolished gruesome punishments like 'death

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