Empress Dowager Cixi and I
by De Ling
About This Novel
"The Empress Dowager Cixi and Me" is a memoir written in English by Chinese-American De Ling. The book adopts the perspective of Western culture and tells in detail the actual life in the Qing court she observed while serving the Empress Dowager Cixi, including Cixi's diet, daily life, clothing, words and deeds, and her experience of traveling by train, etc. The characters involved include Emperor Guangxu, the empress, Li Lianying, Yuan Shikai and other officials, and some palace secrets of major historical events are mentioned. It has both literary interest and historical value. Compared with the currently popular harem novels and harem film and television dramas, this book is true and comprehensive, rich in content and highly readable.
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Official(45)Scraped 20d ago
It was such a woman who single-handedly led the final glory in Chinese history.
I actually finished reading it without missing a beat. Although I cannot understand the national affairs and people's livelihood of the Empress Dowager Cixi at that time due to her connivance and low office efficiency, but personally as a woman, she has leadership style, pays attention to appearance, and has her own style of doing things. Loves and understands beauty, works hard for the country, and enjoys life. Today, she looks like a strong working woman in the new era, strategizing and full of energy. The only shortcoming is that her ideological consciousness is too low and she lacks the spirit of self-reliance. As far as women of that era were concerned, she was a spiritual leader and the only one who truly understood beauty and life. [Emot=default,03/]
From our point of view, she may be a sinner through the ages, but most women in that era were ignorant. Although the Empress Dowager Cixi was a queen mother, she was also a woman. Perhaps any woman who was in power at that time would be like her or even worse. To be honest, after reading this book, all my hatred for her disappeared. After all, they are both women and I can understand her. The history books we studied were too biased and only talked about her bad qualities, leading us to misunderstand that Cixi was the eternal sinner who caused China's backwardness. But in fact, it is just a development trend of historical necessity, which is only indirectly transformed by Cixi [Here is my personal understanding again: everything has a reason for development, and all good and bad things are to pave the way for the next thing. I believe in the arrangement of fate. I really accept my fate, so I won't be afraid or sad if I start over again, it's fate's arrangement] (It's a long way off 😂). What a broken history book, bad review. --Xiao Wang Ling, the 82nd Team of Wangyue Campus, No. 50 Middle School
Everyone has the right to act recklessly, but not everyone can bear the consequences of acting recklessly.
Empress Dowager Cixi is like a giant baby, and people all over China support her materially and spiritually. She is like a spoiled child, unable to take on important responsibilities at all. She really has no courage like Wu Zetian
Still a good book
Lafayette
In fact, Lafayette is also very good. He also hopes that the country will be strong, otherwise he will not declare war on the whole world. Thinking about this, it is very admirable.
typo-free book
So far, this is the first book I have seen with no typos.
The author actually adds a lot of personal subjective feelings to the work, and the content may not be completely consistent with the truth.
Looking at it, I couldn't help but feel angry. Cixi, the chief culprit who lost power and humiliated the country, regarded the entire Qing Dynasty and its people as her old Buddha's toys.
Not bad.
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Official(45)Scraped 20d ago
It was such a woman who single-handedly led the final glory in Chinese history.
I actually finished reading it without missing a beat. Although I cannot understand the national affairs and people's livelihood of the Empress Dowager Cixi at that time due to her connivance and low office efficiency, but personally as a woman, she has leadership style, pays attention to appearance, and has her own style of doing things. Loves and understands beauty, works hard for the country, and enjoys life. Today, she looks like a strong working woman in the new era, strategizing and full of energy. The only shortcoming is that her ideological consciousness is too low and she lacks the spirit of self-reliance. As far as women of that era were concerned, she was a spiritual leader and the only one who truly understood beauty and life. [Emot=default,03/]
From our point of view, she may be a sinner through the ages, but most women in that era were ignorant. Although the Empress Dowager Cixi was a queen mother, she was also a woman. Perhaps any woman who was in power at that time would be like her or even worse. To be honest, after reading this book, all my hatred for her disappeared. After all, they are both women and I can understand her. The history books we studied were too biased and only talked about her bad qualities, leading us to misunderstand that Cixi was the eternal sinner who caused China's backwardness. But in fact, it is just a development trend of historical necessity, which is only indirectly transformed by Cixi [Here is my personal understanding again: everything has a reason for development, and all good and bad things are to pave the way for the next thing. I believe in the arrangement of fate. I really accept my fate, so I won't be afraid or sad if I start over again, it's fate's arrangement] (It's a long way off 😂). What a broken history book, bad review. --Xiao Wang Ling, the 82nd Team of Wangyue Campus, No. 50 Middle School
Everyone has the right to act recklessly, but not everyone can bear the consequences of acting recklessly.
Empress Dowager Cixi is like a giant baby, and people all over China support her materially and spiritually. She is like a spoiled child, unable to take on important responsibilities at all. She really has no courage like Wu Zetian
Still a good book
Lafayette
In fact, Lafayette is also very good. He also hopes that the country will be strong, otherwise he will not declare war on the whole world. Thinking about this, it is very admirable.
typo-free book
So far, this is the first book I have seen with no typos.
The author actually adds a lot of personal subjective feelings to the work, and the content may not be completely consistent with the truth.
Looking at it, I couldn't help but feel angry. Cixi, the chief culprit who lost power and humiliated the country, regarded the entire Qing Dynasty and its people as her old Buddha's toys.
Not bad.
