Empress Dowager Cixi : The Concubine Who Launched Modern China Gaston Leroux They want her to become

They want her to become a ghost bride for the family's only son

a sub-cabinet official

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Empress Dowager Cixi : The Concubine Who Launched Modern China Gaston Leroux They want her to becomeFrom the bestselling author of Wild Swans and Mao: The Unknown StoryIn this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi the most important woman in Chinese history brought a medieval empire into the modern age. Under her, the ancient country attained virtually all the attributes of a modern state and it was she who abolished gruesome punishments like death by a thousand cuts and put an end to foot binding. Jung