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Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

Episode 1

Duration: 15 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

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4 Extra Debut. Jung Chang's groundbreaking biography reassesses this formidable 19th-century stateswoman who single-handedly dragged China into modernity. Show more

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