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Letters from South Africa

Johannesburg

Five letters from South African writers about life there in the week of the ANC elections.

• 14 mins

Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

Episode 1

Jung Chang's biography of the woman who single-handedly dragged China into modernity.

• 15 mins

Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

Episode 2

Cixi forms an important political alliance and launches a palace coup.

• 15 mins

Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

Episode 3

Cixi adopts the three-year-old son of her sister and names him Emperor.

• 15 mins

Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

Episode 4

A young ambitious reformist looks to topple Cixi from power, and a battle of wits ensues.

• 15 mins

Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

Episode 5

Cixi faces her greatest challenge as ruler, when anti-Western feeling leads to violence.

• 15 mins