Greg Jenner
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You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
Yeah.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
And of course, they are defeated in the Second Opium War.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
The treaty is forced upon them in the Kowloon Peninsula and so on.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
So it's gone really wrong.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
And then it goes even worse.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
Sophie, do you know what happens to the emperor?
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
And then he gets as sick as you can get.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
He gets dead.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
He gets dead.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
As sick as that.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
Yeah.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
He died in 1861.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
Oh, no.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
Which presumably leaves our lady consort Yee in serious trouble, you think, right?
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
No, there's no more emperor in favour.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
But of course, she does have a son.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
The only heir.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
So is this where, Yang Wen, we get now another name change?
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
Do we finally get to meet Sir Xi?
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
Final form.