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Book of the Week Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China Episodes Available now
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Episode 5
5/5 Cixi faces her greatest challenge as ruler, when anti-Western feeling leads to violence.
Episode 4
4/5 A young ambitious reformist looks to topple Cixi from power, and a battle of wits ensues.
Episode 3
3/5 Cixi adopts the three-year-old son of her sister and names him Emperor.
Episode 2
2/5 Cixi forms an important political alliance and launches a palace coup.
Episode 1
1/5 Jung Chang's biography of the woman who single-handedly dragged China into modernity.