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Chapter List (26) Free
- 1: Table of contents
- 2: sequence
- 3: foreword
- 4: Palace life
- 5: Empress Dowager Cixi's Daily Life (1)
- 6: Empress Dowager Cixi's Daily Life (2)
- 7: Empress Dowager Cixi's Daily Life (3)
- 8: Empress Dowager Cixi's Daily Life (4)
- 9: Empress Dowager Cixi's Daily Life (5)
- 10: Empress Dowager Empress Dowager (1)
- 11: Empress Dowager Empress Dowager (2)
- 12: Empress Dowager Empress Dowager (3)
- 13: Empress Dowager Empress Dowager (4)
- 14: Empress Dowager Cixi's family
- 15: Emperor Guangxu and his concubines
- 16: Eunuch Trivia (1)
- 17: Eunuch Trivia (2)
- 18: postscript
- 19: Attachment 1: Liu Yaoxin, the "old maid" I know
- 20: Attachment 2: Fifty years of friendship
- 21: Appendix 3: Recalling Wang Xi of Hiroshima
- 22: Attachment 4: Literary and Art Themes of the Qing Dynasty and Jin Yi (1)
- 23: Discussion on "Talks of Palace Maids"
- 24: Jin Yi and his "Records of Conversations with Palace Ladies"
- 25: The Value of "Talks of the Palace Ladies" / Zheng Enbo
- 26: Return the true, credible and living history to the people
