The Legend of Cixi

This book uses a popular yet rigorous narrative style, taking the real timeline from Cixi's birth in 1835 to her death in 1908 as an axis to unfold the life of this woman who influenced the late Qing Dynasty for half a century. From Lan Guiren, who first entered the court of Yehenala, to Concubine Yi and Concubine Yi after giving birth to a prince, to Xinyou's coup to seize power, and the two palaces to listen to the government behind the curtain, until he took the power alone to promote Westernization, to deal with the defeat of the Sino-Japanese War of 1898 and the Reform Movement of 1898, and finally ended in the tug of the New Deal and imperial power, the book not only restores the key history of the draft, coup, and flight to the west, etc. The details of the incident are also interspersed with vivid scenes of palace life and power games, avoiding stereotyped judgments and showing Cixi's choices and struggles in the predicament of the times from a plain perspective. It outlines the historical picture of the late Qing Dynasty from its survival to its end, allowing readers to understand Cixi's life and the rise and fall of the late Qing Dynasty in an easy reading.