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Empress Dowager Cixi
The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
Qing Dynasty (China)
Empresses
Diplomatic relations
Foreign relations
New York Times reviewed
Politics and government
Biography
History
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…
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