A review by fuzzypurplecows
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang

informative slow-paced

3.0

Interesting subject matter but reading it really dragged. Also it is presented semi chronologically but also divided by event. There is overlap between some of these events but they are presented completely separately which was frustrating, as they definitely impacted each other. Parsing the timeline of the first half of the book took more effort than it ought to have for something that had the dates in the chapter titles.