In this episode, we dive headlong into the collapse of imperial China with our first female effer-upper, Empress Dowager Cixi.

Podcast to Recommend: The History of China (https://thehistoryofchina.wordpress.com/)

Sources

  • Hsu, Immanuel. The Rise of Modern China, 6th ed. Oxford, England: Oxford U. Press, 1999.
  • Kwong, Luke. A Mosaic of the Hundred Days: Personalities, Politics, and the Ideas of 1898. Cambridge, MA: Harvard U. Press, 1984.
  • Laidler, Keith. The Lost Empress: She-Dragon of China. Chichester, England: Wiley, 2003.
  • Muhlhahn, Klaus. Making China Modern: From the Great Qing to Xi Jinping. Cambridge, MA: Harvard U. Press, 2019.

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