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As events would show, Cixi was indeed opposed to the foreign policy of her husband and his inner circle — but for very different reasons. Silently observing from close quarters, she in fact regarded their stubborn resistance to opening the door of China as stupid and wrong. Their hate-filled effort to shut out the West had, in her view, achieved the opposite to preserving the empire. It had brought the empire catastrophe, not least the destruction of her beloved Old Summer Palace. She herself would pursue a new route.

Jung Chang Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who … feminism

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