A fictionalized first-person account of the life of Cixi, the infamous "Dragon Lady" who rose from poverty to become the Empress Dowager of China. The synopsis covers her childhood in a declining aristocratic family, her entry into the Forbidden City as a concubine, and her strategic rise to power through seduction of the Emperor and her eventual role as a shrewd political force and regent for her young son, all while navigating the corruption and foreign threats to the Qing dynasty.
A fictionalized first-person account of the life of Cixi, the infamous "Dragon Lady" who rose from poverty to become the Empress Dowager of China. The synopsis covers her childhood in a declining aristocratic family, her entry into the Forbidden City as a concubine, and her strategic rise to power through seduction of the Emperor and her eventual role as a shrewd political force and regent for her young son, all while navigating the corruption and foreign threats to the Qing dynasty.
