cixi

A biography of Empress Dowager Cixi that describes her fight to change and modernize China.

A fictional account of the life of Tsu Hsi, known as Empress Orchid, telling of her rise to power in China, and the political skills that allowed her to remain in a position of leadership for more than four decades.

Contains an illustrated introduction to the private world of the forbidden city in China and examines the ceremonies, rituals, weddings, births, and deaths of several royal dynasties.

Tzu Hsi, otherwise known as Orchid, becomes the lover, and eventually the wife of the king, and after a coup that deposes her husband, she is left in charge of a troubled country until her son comes of age.

A biography of Empress Dowager Cixi who ruled over China from 1861 through 1908 that discusses how she rose to power and the challenges she faced as a leader.

Tzu Hsi, known as Orchid, enters China's Forbidden City at the age of seventeen to serve as a concubine for the Emperor, and when she bears the monarch a son, she is elevated to the rank of Empress, where she struggles to maintain her position and the right to raise her own child.

Provides an illustrated introduction to the life of Cixi, the last empress of China, who fought to isolate her country from the West and ignored the needs of her people while cloistering herself inside her lavish Forbidden City.