Greg Jenner
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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Yeah.
Lucky number seven.
We've been all over the world together on the show.
We've never done Chinese history with you.
No.
How are you with Chinese history?
Yeah.
Does that count as going to China?
And does the name Empress Dowager Cixi ring any bells?
That's right.
In English, we spell it C-I-X-I.
We will see.
She's a terrible bird.
So, what do you know?
And that brings us to the first segment of the podcast, the So What Do You Know?
This is where I have a go at guessing what you, our lovely listener, might know about today's subject.
And Empress Dowager Suu Kyi is known throughout East Asia, where she's the subject of any number of films, books and TV shows.
But despite her decades in power, she's much less famous in the English-speaking world than, of course, her contemporary Queen Victoria.
Although Suu Kyi does have a brief appearance in Bernardo Bertolucci's 1987 film The Last Emperor.
So who was this woman who ruled China for nearly five decades?