Empress Dowager Cixi and Me

Author: De Ling
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: This can be said to be one of the earliest historical oral records. The sisters, De Ling and Kung Ling, were among the most favored close female attendants of Empress Dowager Cixi during that time. They were also among the very few princesses of the late Qing Dynasty who had received Western education and could speak English and French. Kung Ling's Recollections of Court Life in Peking and De Ling's Memoirs of My Childhood narrate their court life alongside Empress Dowager Cixi and the political changes of the late Qing Dynasty. These are invaluable firsthand materials for understanding late Qing life and history, truly precious.