Sophie Duker
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You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
Shishit?
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
Oh God, I didn't want to say it because I was like gearing up to it like a horse up to a jump and I was like, you're going to brutalise the most basic word in Chinese.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
Shishit?
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
Shishit, yeah.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
Shishit.
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
Thank you, Yagwen.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
Thank you.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
Oh boy.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
Wow.
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
I feel like it's probably numerologically...
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
Auspicious.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
I think it's probably bad because I was educated in the UK.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
I don't know a lot about China.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
And what I know about China has probably been like filtered through quite a problematic lens.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
But I did go to China recently.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
I actually, I say I went to China.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
I went through Shenzhen Airport and it was a great experience.
You're Dead to Me
Empress Dowager Cixi: from concubine to ruler of China
Great.