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

2.0

For me, this book is just not enough. Not enough academic, not enough reliable. So, not interesting for me, as a future expert in Asia. But the saddest is that it can't be enough for non-expertise readers, too, because it is simply boring. Most of it is unnecessary, there is not enough bibliography and THE WORST of it all, is completely misleading every time it goes a single inch away from her main point, even having dramatic fails at talking about linguistics or Japan. A complete fail, though, if proved, it is a very interesting and new research... That needs to be validated.