TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chang, Jung.
TI  - Empress Dowager Cixi: the concubine who launched modern China
SN  - 9780099532392
U1  - 951/.035CHA 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - Alfred A. Knopf
KW  - Cixi, Empress dowager of China, 1835-1908
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-415) and index
N2  - In 1852, at age sixteen, Cixi was chosen as one of Emperor Xianfeng?s numerous concubines. When he died in 1861, their five-year-old son succeeded to the throne. Cixi at once launched a coup against her son?s regents and placed herself as the true source of power?governing through a silk screen that separated her from her male officials
ER  -