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SteveEisenberg · 10-01-2014, 07:58 PM

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.

10-01-2014, 07:58 PM	#30
SteveEisenberg Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,435 Karma: 43514536 Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: near Philadelphia USA Device: Kindle Kids Edition, Fire HD 10 (11th generation)	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.