Archive: Empress Dowager Cixi

In Our Time by BBC

Sep 3, 202651:03Society & Culture

Misha Glenny delves in to the In Our Time archive to select ten episodes for listeners to revisit. His fifth choice, first released in May 2024, is the Empress Dowager Cixi, the woman who, for almost fifty years, was the...

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