Jung Chang's previous books include Wild Swans (1991), a family history that has sold more than 10 million copies internationally and also been banned in China, and Mao: The Unknown Story (2005), co-authored with her husband, British historian Jon Halliday.Д¬hang will join Schell for a conversation about her biography, illustrated with historical images, at Asia Society New York on Tuesday, November 12. Reviewing Empress Dowager Cixi for the New York Times Book Review last month, Director of Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations Orville Schell called it 'absorbing' and said that Chang's 'extensive use of new Chinese sources makes a strong case for a reappraisal' of Cixi's role in China's development. She developed foreign trade and diplomacy and established a new education system.Д«ased on newly available, mostly Chinese historical documents, Chang's book is meant to overturn the common view of Cixi as a vicious, reactionary despot - and revise thinking about a crucial period in China's history. Under her the ancient country attained virtually all the attributes of a modern state: industries, railways, electricity, newspapers, the telegraph, an army and navy with up-to-date weaponry. Cixi immediately launched a palace coup, ousted the regents appointed by her husband, and made herself the real ruler of China. Knopf, 2013), Jung Chang tells the extraordinary life story of China's Empress Cixi (1835-1908), who ruled China for 47 years and almost single-handedly dragged it into the modern age.ДЄt the age of 16, Cixi was selected, after a nationwide search, to be one of Emperor Xianfeng's many concubines when Xianfeng died in 1861, their five-year-old son Tongzhi became the next emperor.

In her groundbreaking new biography, Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China (Alfred A. Asia Society Museum: The Asia Arts & Museum Network.

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