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Empress Dowager Cixi
Jung Chang

Empress Dowager Cixi bookcover.
  • Sunday 22 June 2014, 5.15PM to 6.15pm
  • Free admission
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  • National Science Learning Centre (map)

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Jung Chang, the bestselling author of Wild Swans and Mao: The Unknown Story, talks about her epic biography of the empress dowager Cixi, the woman who rose from emperor’s concubine to rule 19th century China for 50 years, overcoming centuries of traditions and modernising China, exposing its culture to western political ideas and technology.

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