Internationally known for the bestselling Wild Swans and Mao: The Unknown Story, Jung Chang has returned with her first book in eight years. Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern ...
Jung Chang, in conversation about her latest book, Empress Dowager Cixi, with Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society. From author and historian Jung ...
This piece originally appeared on asiasociety.org. Jung Chang’s new biography Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013) recounts the remarkable life of ...
"Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China" (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013) by Jung Chang (R). (Lisa Weiss) Jung Chang's new biography Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched ...
EMPRESS DOWAGER CIXI:THE CONCUBINE WHO LAUNCHED MODERN CHINA By Jung Chang Alfred A. Knopf, $30, 464 pages The Empress Dowager Cixi ruled China, mostly directly, from the death of her husband, Emperor ...
The Diplomat’s Justin McDonnell spoke with author Jung Chang about her latest book, Empress Dowager Cixi, a biography of the “most important woman in Chinese history. How did you pick Empress Dowager ...
EMPRESS DOWAGER CIXI: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China. By Jung Chang. Knopf. 373 pages. $30. When Empress Dowager Cixi arrived at Beijing's Forbidden City as a concubine in 1852, it contained ...
Empress Dowager Cixi ruled the sprawling country of China for 47 years. Courtesy photo “Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China” by Jung Chang (Alfred A. Knopf, 415 pages, $30) A ...
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China. By Jung Chang. Knopf; 464 pages; $30. Jonathan Cape; £20. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk CHINA’S last real imperial ruler, the Empress ...