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Old 10-01-2014, 07:58 PM   #30
SteveEisenberg
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Here's another, much more positive, review by a historian who knows the era:

http://www.chinafile.com/surprising-empress

My feeling is that the overall picture is probably sound.

Some of the incidents where Cixi comes out worst (alleged ordering of Consort Zhen to be thrown into the well, and of the Guangxu Emperor to be poisoned), I found least convincing.
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