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 * Sean Stewart Price’s **// Cixi: Evil Empress of China? //

 Katharine Carl spent some ten months with the Empress Dowager Cixi in 1903 to paint her portrait for the St. Louis Exposition. In her book, Katharine Carl describes the Empress Dowager Cixi as a kind and considerate woman. Empress Dowager Cixi, though shrewd, had great presence, charm, and graceful movements and "an unusually attractive personality". '
 * Katharine Carl's ** //With the Empress Dowager //

 Seagrave gives us our most vivid and reliable biography yet of the Dowager Empress Cixi, remembered through the exaggeration and falsehood of legend as the ruthless Manchu concubine who seduced and murdered her way to the Chinese throne in 1861.
 * Sterling Seagrave’s **// Dragon Lady: The Life and Legend of the Last Empress of China //