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001 2013020766
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020 $a9780307271600 (hardcover)
020 $a9780307456700 (pbk.)
020 $z9780385350372 (ebook)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
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050 00 $aDS763.63.C58$bC43 2013
082 00 $a951/.035092$aB$223
100 1 $aChang, Jung,$d1952-
245 10 $aEmpress Dowager Cixi :$bthe concubine who launched modern China /$cJung Chang.
250 $aFirst American edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bAlfred A. Knopf,$c2013.
300 $axiii, 436 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations (some color), map ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
500 $a"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 403-415) and index.
505 0 $aI. The imperial concubine in stormy times (1835-1861) -- Concubine to an emperor (1835-56) -- From the Opium War to the burning of the old Summer Palace (1839-60) -- Emperor Xianfeng dies (1860-61) -- The coup that changed China -- II. Reigning behind her sons' throne (1861-1875) -- First step on the long road to modernity (1861-9) -- Virgin journeys to the west (1861-71) -- Love doomed (1869) -- A vendetta against the west (1869-71) -- Life and death of Emperor Tongzhi (1861-75) -- III. Ruling through an adopted son (1875-1889) -- A three-year-old is made emperor (1875) -- Modernisation accelerates (1875-89) -- Defender of the empire (1875-89) -- IV. Guangxu alienated from Cixi (1875-94) -- The Summer Palace (1886-94) -- In retirement and in leisure (1889-94) -- War with Japan (1894) -- A peace that ruined China (1895) -- The scramble for China (1895-8) -- V. To the front of the stage (1898-1901) -- The reforms of 1898 (1898) -- A plot to kill Cixi (September 1898) -- Desperate to dethrone her adopted son (1898-1900) -- To war against the world powers: with the Boxers (1899-1900) -- Fighting to a bitter end (1900) -- Flight (1900-1) -- Remorse (1900-1) -- VI. The real revolution of modern China (1901-1908) -- Return to Beijing (1901-2) -- Making friends with westerners (1902-7) -- Cixi's revolution (1902-8) -- The vote! (1905-8) -- Coping with insurgents, assassins and the Japanese (1902-8) -- Deaths (1908) -- Epilogue: China after Empress Dowager Cixi.
600 00 $aCixi,$cEmpress dowager of China,$d1835-1908.
650 0 $aEmpresses$zChina$vBiography.
651 0 $aChina$xPolitics and government$y19th century.
651 0 $aChina$xHistory$y1861-1912.