Empress Dowager Cixi: the concubine who launched modern China
Politics and government biography, History, Royalty biography, Women biography, Asian history, Historical biography
Human-narrated audio
Summary
Author of Mao (DB 61346) and Wild Swans (DB 34458) portrays the life of Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908). Chronicles her selection as concubine, orchestration of a coup that made her de facto ruler, reign during the Taiping and Boxer rebellions and an eight-country invasion, and implementation of sweeping reforms. 2013
Title Details
ISBN
9780307271600
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Copyright Date
2013
Book number
4397949
Audio details for CELA title
Narrator
Kerry Dukin
Duration
19 hours 10 minutes 33 seconds
Audio producer
American Printing House for the Blind