The Empress Dowager Flees West: The Empire's Tumultuous, Chaotic Twilight

Name: The Empress Dowager Flees West: The Empire's Tumultuous, Chaotic Twilight
Author: Tan Musheng

太后西奔：帝国晚期的仓皇与激荡

by Tan Musheng (谭木声)

Status: Completed
Length: 180k Words
Genre: Historical
Updated: 2y ago
Source: Fanqie

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In 1900, during the Boxer Rebellion, the Empress Dowager of the Qing court fled west. This singular historical event had a profound bearing on the course of Chinese society.

Taking a broad view of history while focusing on a small but telling slice of it, the author draws on new research materials and rich detail to depict the upheaval that began with a private feud within one family and ended with the fate of an entire nation at stake.

Woven throughout are the political entanglements, personal relationships, and Manchu-Han tensions of the late Qing’s final two decades. Set against the international climate and the backdrop of popular religion, the book brings history to life, makes its people vivid, and reveals the tragedies of their fates.

The Empress Dowager’s flight west was bound up with countless forces. Here, the historical course of the late Qing’s final two decades and even of modern Chinese society can be seen and clearly understood.

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