Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China Class_Food & Drink and their own self-worth in

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Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China Class_Food & Drink and their own self-worth inFrom the bestselling author of Wild Swans and Mao: The Unknown Story In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi the most important woman in Chinese history brought a medieval empire into the modern age. Under her, the ancient country attained virtually all the attributes of a modern state and it was she who abolished gruesome punishments like 'death by a thousand cuts' and put an end to foot binding. Jung