Greg Jenner
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You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
It's a British name for the people they believe they're fighting have martial arts skills.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
Is that fair?
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
So the British are like, the people we're fighting, they don't use guns, they use hands.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
Practitioners, yeah.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
So it's a sort of rebellion of traditional martial arts practitioners.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
Who is their great enemy?
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
Is it the foreigners?
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
I feel like it's an oxymoron.
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
Oh, really?
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
Right.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
But she is forced to flee the Forbidden City.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
So, you know, it goes wrong for her.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
Yeah, so it backfires on her.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
No one's believing that.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
Come on.
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
So, I mean, you said at the beginning, and we'll say it again, she died in 1908.