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Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

Episode 5

Duration: 15 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for years

Cixi faces her greatest challenge as ruler, when anti-Western feeling in rural China leads to violence. Jung Chang's biography of a remarkable 19th-century stateswoman. Show more

BBC Radio 4 LW

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