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A review by marakairisa
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang
4.0
Great book, history/fiction.
Con: A bit one-sided so that you need to have a critical view on the praises and justifications which makes the book seem a bit hyperbolic and even unbelieveable.
Pro: Shifts the negative historical stigmata about Empress Cixi, who was one of the great women rulers. And has factual evidences on which it is based.
Not quite sure to which audience it was meant, because it is far too factual to be fiction, and far too unilateral to be history. Too explanatory to be for Chinese audience and a bit complicated and unexplained for the West.
Con: A bit one-sided so that you need to have a critical view on the praises and justifications which makes the book seem a bit hyperbolic and even unbelieveable.
Pro: Shifts the negative historical stigmata about Empress Cixi, who was one of the great women rulers. And has factual evidences on which it is based.
Not quite sure to which audience it was meant, because it is far too factual to be fiction, and far too unilateral to be history. Too explanatory to be for Chinese audience and a bit complicated and unexplained for the West.