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Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China BN_Top_100 But when their love isA New York Times Notable Book An NPR Best Book of the Year In 1852, at age sixteen, Cixi was chosen as one of Emperor Xianfeng's numerous concubines. When he died in 1861, their five year old son succeeded to the throne. Cixi at once launched a coup against her son's regents and placed herself as the true source of power governing through a silk screen that separated her from her male officials. Drawing on newly available sources, Jung Chang