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I enjoyed this book immensely, Carl is a very engaging writer, and I could easily imagine myself by her side, experiencing the same highs and lows that she does she uses a lot of exclamation marks! and empathizing with her when something does not play out the way she would have liked.
It's also rather refreshing to read about a westerner's perspective of Cixi that wasn't completely negative and/or racisthard to come by in the Empress Dowager's day and age.
Compelling and eye opening. I found it to be very enjoyable and, even with some flaws and inaccuracies, it was good to read a sympathetic biography of a much maligned woman ruler.
She was certainly not the monster that most histories paint her to be, On the contrary, she was a ruler with a heart for her country and a conviction few men before her held, First published in. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor amp Francis, an informa company, Katharine Augusta Carl.