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Empress Dowager Cixi
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Includes Empress Dowager Cixi's biography, pictures, Summer Palace and books.

Chinese Empress Dowager Cixi
A picture.

Cixi
Brief introduction with a photo.

Cixi (the Empress Dowager Tz'u-hsi)
Brief biography with a photo.

Court Life in China
The full copy of the book by Isaac Taylor Headland.

Court Life In China
A book by Isaac Taylor Headland (1909).

Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi
A brief biography of Cixi with books and links.

Empress Dowager Tzu Hsi
Includes slides about Cixi.

Dragon Lady
With links, books, views and facts about Cixi.

Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908)
Describes her childhood, life as Empress and her political savvy.

Late Qing China, 1898 -1910: Reform and Rebellion
Describes the history of late Qing.

Tzu-Hsi: The Dowager Empress of China
Brief introduction with an annotated bibliography.

Dowager Empress's Summer Palace
Introduction to the Summer Palace with pictures.

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