SALE! The Last Great Empress of China by Charlotte Haldane
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Empress Dowager Cixi (1835 – 1908), of the Manchu Yehenara clan, was a Chinese empress dowager and regent who effectively controlled the Chinese government in the late Qing dynasty for 47 years from 1861 until her death in 1908. Tzu-hsi (or Cixi), had started life in a minor Manchu family in 1835. Pretty and charming, at 17 she was recruited to the harem of the Son of Heaven, the Hsien-feng (or Xanfeng) emperor. She was the only one of his wives and concubines to give him a son, the future Tung-chih (or Tongzhi) emperor, and when the boy succeeded his father at the age of six in 1861, she as co-regent made herself the effective ruler of the country. Shrewd, determined and ruthless, Tzu-hsi had no intention of relinquishing power and when her son came of age at 17 she kept him occupied with women and opium. In 1898 the young emperor announced a programme of modernizing reforms, which conservative mandarins opposed, but with their support and the army, Tzu-hsi took control again. She supported the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, as a nationalistic movement, that would preserve her regency. The Imperial system was overthrown three years after her death, in 1911, and China became a republic.Heron Books, London, in the serie Women Who Made History,1968. Hardback. Publisher's olive faux leather, gilt and white titless, rule, and designs on the spines and front boards, gold-painted green endpapers, and gold ribbon markers. 335 pp. Lavishly illustrated.
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