That was Empress Dowager Cixi’s life story ... While raising the emperor’s son, Cixi tried to talk to the emperor to give him advice on how to run the country. At that time, a woman even ...

Best-selling author Jung Chang’s newest work, Empress Dowager Cixi, upends the stereotypes of ... did not even like her, Chang said. But Cixi gave him his only son, and she used her growing stature to ...

Toward the end of the Qing Dynasty, Empress Dowager Cixi arrogated all powers onto herself. This period, called the Guangxu Xuantong Reign, was China's darkest and most corrupt political period.

Like Wild Swans it is banned in China. 2013 saw the publication of Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China. Here Chang reassesses the reputation of the formidable 19th ...