What to Read After Empress Dowager Cixi
Readers who loved Empress Dowager Cixi by Jung Chang keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Empress Dowager Cixi is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Empress Dowager Cixi
The valley of amazement
China
George, Nicholas and Wilhelm
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom
Mao's great famine
Imperial China 900-1800
Isabella
Wild Swans
Mao
Catherine the Great
Nicholas and Alexandra
Pearl of China
Red Azalea
The Romanovs
The Last Empress
Life and death in Shanghai
The Good Women of China
The Silk Roads
Imperial Woman
Midnight in Peking
The aquariums of Pyongyang
A history of the world in 100 objects
Lawrence in Arabia
The Painter from Shanghai