Greg Jenner
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You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
Yeah, the French are there.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
Right.
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
Right.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
You mentioned briefly the Taiping Rebellion.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
Yes.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
That is a Christian uprising.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
Which is interesting, I suppose, because missionaries have been in China for a while.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
So Christianity has been growing in China.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
Yeah, it's a huge, it's a massive rebellion, isn't it?
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
It's not a small little thing.
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 she did fight with France.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
And that's when Japan is the main adversary.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
So the Sino-Japanese wars.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
So it's a long list of enemies that she has to face.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
Christians within her own country, the British, the French, the Japanese.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
Because Japan has invaded Korea by this point.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
So Japan's becoming more powerful as well.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
And China was defeated.