The Prequel to Empress Dowager Cixi

Author: Gao Yang
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Publish Date: 2004-03-01
Features: Fiction is not history; it must have fluctuating and engaging storylines. Gao Yang was a master storyteller. Another major advantage of Gao Yang's historical novels lies here. The late Qing history is complex and unpredictable, "tangled and untidy." Yet Gao Yang navigated it with ease, weaving separate threads that interconnect. Through the tension and release of storytelling, the historical landscape of the late Qing era naturally emerges. Readers, driven by their eagerness to learn more about the story, unknowingly become familiar with the historical facts. A panoramic view of the late Qing history, one of the epic series "The Complete Biography of Empress Dowager Cixi." The political career of a woman begins with the death of her husband, the emperor. In the lonely imperial palace, a woman who has lost favor cannot have her inner sorrows fully understood by others. In the eleventh year of the Xianfeng reign of the Qing Dynasty, the Xianzong Emperor died in the Rehe Summer Palace. An infant emperor ascended the throne, and his mother, Lian'er, was hailed as the "Holy Mother Empress Dowager." Faced with the temptation of power and the loss of her husband, Lian'er's heart gave rise to an unimaginable path in life, pushing herself onto the path of politics. From then on, a woman's dynasty was established.