# Empress Dowager Cixi

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- Book: [Empress Dowager Cixi](https://www.bookquiver.com/jung-chang/empress-dowager-cixi) ([Empress Dowager Cixi.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jung-chang/empress-dowager-cixi.md))
- Authors: [Jung Chang](https://www.bookquiver.com/jung-chang)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-03-0745-670-0
- Pages: 496
- Published: 2014-09-09
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A New York Times Notable Book An NPR Best Book of the Year 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...