Quotes by : Jung Chang

Before our "company" set off, at a wink from the officer, Plumpie stood up and proposed a search. I could....

Cixi’s lack of formal education was more than made up for by her intuitive intelligence, which she....

For Cixi, the whole episode taught her that to survive at court she must hold her tongue about state....

Dr. Xia was working as a salaried doctor attached to another man's medicine shop, which did not give....

She was a pious Buddhist and every day in her prayers asked Buddha not ro reincarnate her as a woman.....

As events would show, Cixi was indeed opposed to the foreign policy of her husband and his inner circle....

At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general.

At night I locked my bedroom door, because [my father] could not sleep and would insist on talking to....

Finally, in 1888, Cixi approved the Western-style Navy Regulations. It was in endorsing these Regulations....

Every time she went home she found herself being criticized. She was accused of being "too attached to....