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Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

Episode 2

Duration: 15 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for years

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

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