China Under the Empress Dowager
| Author | |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Subject | Empress Dowager Cixi |
| Genre | Biography |
Publication date | 1910 |
| ISBN | 978-9881866745 |
China Under the Empress Dowager: Being the History of the Life and Times of Tzŭ Hsi is a book by John Otway Percy Bland and Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet, first published in 1910. Bland wrote the text and Backhouse supplied the sourcing material. The book is about Empress Dowager Cixi.
The book stated to have an insider account of the Boxer Rebellion.
Some of the sources, including Diary of His Excellency Ching Shan, were later revealed to have been forged by Backhouse.