영문목차
List of Illustrations=ix
About the Sources=xi
Author's Note=xiii
Map of China under Cixi=xiv
PART ONE The Imperial Concubine in Stormy Times (1835-1861)
1. Concubine to an Emperor (1835-56)=3
2. From the Opium War to the Burning of the Old Summer Palace (1839-60)=17
3. Emperor Xianfeng Dies (1860-61)=36
4. The Coup that Changed China (1861)=41
PART TWO Reigning Behind Her Son's Throne (1861-1875)
5. First Step on the Long Road to Modernity (1861-9)=55
6. Virgin Journeys to the West (1861-71)=70
7. Love Doomed (1869)=83
8. A Vendetta against the West (1869-71)=88
9. Life and Death of Emperor Tongzhi (1861-75)=97
PART THREE Ruling Through an Adopted Son (1875-1889)
10. A Three-year-old is Made Emperor (1875)=113
11. Modernisation Accelerates (1875-89)=118
12. Defender of the Empire (1875-89)=129
PART FOUR Emperor Guangxu Takes Over (1889-1898)
13. Guangxu Alienated from Cixi (1875-94)=145
14. The Summer Palace (1886-94)=159
15. In Retirement and in Leisure (1889-94)=163
16. War with Japan (1894)=181
17. A Peace that Ruined China (1895)=197
18. The Scramble for China (1895-8)=204
PART FIVE To the Front of the Stage (1898-1901)
19. The Reforms of 1898 (1898)=219
20. A Plot to Kill Cixi (September 1898)=232
21. Desperate to Dethrone Her Adopted Son (1898-1900)=247
22. To War against the World Powers―with the Boxers (1899-1900)=256
23. Fighting to a Bitter End (1900)=271
24. Flight (1900-1)=280
25. Remorse (1900-1)=292
PART SIX The Real Revolution of Modern China (1901-1908)
26. Return to Beijing (1901-2)=305
27. Making Friends with Westerners (1902-7)=311
28. Cixi's Revolution (1902-8)=325
29. The Vote! (1905-8)=339
30. Coping with Insurgents, Assassins and the Japanese (1902-8)=346
31. Deaths (1908)=361
Epilogue―China after Empress Dowager Cixi=371
Notes=375
Archives Consulted=401
Bibliography=403
Acknowledgements=417
Index=421