A Concubine Rises to Rule China | HISTORY This Week | Full Podcast

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April 27, 1856. In Beijing’s Forbidden City, one of the emperor’s consorts, a woman named Cixi, has given birth to a son – the emperor’s first heir. This landmark event is met with mass celebration. But in just five years, the emperor will be dead and Cixi will be planning a coup to take power for herself. How will she ever succeed?

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