Chalke Valley History Hit

In this talk, best-selling author of Wild Swans, Jung Chang gave a panoramic depiction of the birth of modern china and an intimate portrait of the most important woman in Chinese history. One of the emperor’s concubines, she launched a palace coup to become the Empress Dowager Cixi, the absolute ruler of a third of the world’s population who overcame huge obstacles to bring a medieval empire into the modern age.Recorded at Chalke Valley History Festival 2016.www.cvhf.org.uk  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.