This acclaimed book by jung chang is available at in several formats for your ereader. Google sites is a free and easy way to create and share webpages. Jung chang portrays the empress dowager cixi as a protofeminist who brought medieval china into the modern age. I havent read a history book so well done in a long time. She ruled china for decades and brought a medieval empire into the modern age. The concubine who launched modern china by jung chang reads so smoothly like a novel but is strictly historical. Empress dowager cixi 1835 1908 is the most important woman in chinese history.
Empress dowager cixi jung chang epub download 14gccs. Chang presents a sympathetic portrait of the empress dowager cixi, who unofficially controlled the manchu qing dynasty in china for 47 years, from 1861 to her death in 1908. Chang s 2005 work, a biography of mao, was coauthored with her husband jon halliday and portrays mao in an extremely negative light. At the age of sixteen, in a nationwide selection for royal consorts, cixi was chosen as one of the emperor s numerous concubines. They interviewed hundreds of people who had known mao, including george bush, sr. She ought to be a gift for a biographer, but jung chang s portrait of her never quite catches her likeness.
Far from depicting her subject as a sinister conservative who obstructed reforms, chang portrays cixi as smart, patriotic and openminded. The concubine who launched modern china is a 20 biography written by jung chang, published by alfred a. A new york times notable bookempress dowager cixi 18351908 is the most important woman in chinese history. Jung changs empress dowager cixi the new york times. She ruled china for decades and brought a medieval. Please read our short guide how to send a book to kindle. We interpret the unquestionable spaying of this ebook in txt, djvu, epub, pdf, dr. In her view, the empress was a protofeminist who, despite the narrowminded, misogynistic male elite that made up the imperial bureaucracy, brought medieval china into the modern age. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read empress dowager cixi. Dowager cixi the concubine who launched modern china by jung chang. Chang argues that cixi has been deemed either tyrannical and vicious, or hopelessly. Descargar epub gratis del autor jung chang espaebook.