Ep. 23 - Chinese Revolution Podcast Episode 20: Empress Dowager Cixi

Host Lauren Schill guests on the Chinese Revolution Podcast, run by host Paul Hesse. This is the first part of the discussion about Cixi and discuss her childhood, family background, as well as becoming a concubine and rising through the ranks. The coup that takes her to power follows the Second Opium War and her husband's death at the Imperial Hunting Lodge Cixi and Cian rule from behind the silk curtain and begin modernization of China, while facing resistance from conservative forces.