Empress Dowager CIXI (Record no. 2522)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781486220199
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 951.035CHI
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Chang, Jung.
245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Empress Dowager CIXI
Remainder of title the concubine who launched modern China
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Bolinda audio
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2013
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent Running time:19hours and 10 mins
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Summary, etc. A "New York Times" Notable Book Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908) is the most important woman in Chinese history. She ruled China for decades and brought a medieval empire into the modern age. At the age of sixteen, in a nationwide selection for royal consorts, Cixi was chosen as one of the emperor's numerous concubines. When he died in 1861, their five-year-old son succeeded to the throne. Cixi at once launched a palace coup against the regents appointed by her husband and made herself the real ruler of China--behind the throne, literally, with a silk screen separating her from her officials who were all male. In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Cixi fought against monumental obstacles to change China. Under her the ancient country attained virtually all the attributes of a modern state: industries, railways, electricity, the telegraph and an army and navy with up-to-date weaponry. It was she who abolished gruesome punishments like "death by a thousand cuts" and put an end to foot-binding. She inaugurated women's liberation and embarked on the path to introduce parliamentary elections to China. Chang comprehensively overturns the conventional view of Cixi as a diehard conservative and cruel despot. Cixi reigned during extraordinary times and had to deal with a host of major national crises: the Taiping and Boxer rebellions, wars with France and Japan--and an invasion by eight allied powers including Britain, Germany, Russia and the United States. Jung Chang not only records the Empress Dowager's conduct of domestic and foreign affairs, but also takes the reader into the depths of her splendid Summer Palace and the harem of Beijing's Forbidden City, where she lived surrounded by eunuchs--one of whom she fell in love, with tragic consequences. The world Chang describes here, in fascinating detail, seems almost unbelievable in its extraordinary mixture of the very old and the very new.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element China
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        UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dar es Salaam UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dar es Salaam 01/17/2025   951.035CHI 002545 01/31/2025 01/17/2025 DVD-Audio