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"Cixi's extraordinary story has all the elements of a good fairy tale: bizarre, sinister, triumphant and terrible." --The Economist
"A truly authoritative account of Cixi's rule. Her story is both important and evocative." --Orville Schell, The New York Times Book Review "A fantastic Machiavellian tale. . . . Dives into a genuinely fascinating figure: a fierce imperial consort who ruled behind the thrones of two successive Chinese emperors and helped ease China into the twentieth century." --New York magazine "Certain to become the standard by which all future biographies of the Dowager Empress are measured." --The Daily Beast "Jung Chang has written a pathbreaking and generally persuasive book." --The New York Review of Books"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
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