Imperial Woman by Pearl S. Buck5/9/2023 Tzu Hsi is portrayed here as a beautiful, ambitious tyrant, scheming to become and then remain Empress. Born in 1892, she would undoubtedly have been old enough to remember the end of Tzu Hsi’s reign and would have hadįirst-hand experience of being a child of foreign Christians during the Boxer Rebellion at the turn of the century. Buck, as the short biography at the end of this new Kindle edition reveals, was the daughter of missionaries and lived in China for many years as both child and adult. For the major part of her reign, Tzu Hsi tried to hold back the tide of progress being forced on her by the various Western powers as they jostled to gain a foothold in this vast country. This is the story of Tzu Hsi, who ruled as regent and Empress of China from 1861-1908, effectively the end of the empire, which collapsed just 3 years after her death.
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