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Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

Episode 2

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Available for years

Jung Chang's biography of one woman's remarkable rise to power in 19th century China continues. Cixi forms an important political alliance and launches a palace coup.

Read by Pik-Sen Lim
Abridged by Sara Davies
Produced by Gemma Jenkins. Show less

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