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Back up to: Book of the Week

1. Episode 5

   5/5 Cixi faces her greatest challenge as ruler, when anti-Western feeling leads to violence.
2. Episode 4

   4/5 A young ambitious reformist looks to topple Cixi from power, and a battle of wits ensues.
3. Episode 3

   3/5 Cixi adopts the three-year-old son of her sister and names him Emperor.
4. Episode 2

   2/5 Cixi forms an important political alliance and launches a palace coup.
5. Episode 1

   1/5 Jung Chang's biography of the woman who single-handedly dragged China into modernity.