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Empress Dowager Cixi [electronic resource] : The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

Chang, Jung2014
At the age of sixteen, in a nationwide selection for royal consorts, Cixi was chosen as one of the emperor’s numerous concubines. When he died in 1861, their five-year-old son succeeded to the throne. Cixi at once launched a palace coup against the regents appointed by her husband and made hersel...
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