A district west of the Forbidden City formed a hub for the transportation of coal ... This is where, on the tenth day of the tenth lunar month in 1835, the future Empress Dowager of China, Cixi, was ...

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"Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China" (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013) by Jung Chang (R). (Lisa Weiss) Jung Chang's new biography Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched ...

Han Hsiang Li's lush epic re-creates the fascinating life and times of Tzu Hsi, the Manchu Qing dynasty empress who rose from the ranks of Emperor Xianfeng's many concubines to become the de facto ...

But the newly named Empress Dowager Cixi quickly ousted them on fabricated ... She was referred to in the West as "Old Buddha" and the "She-Dragon". The large pearl in her crown is said to ...