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Empress Dowager Cixi - Wikipedia
Empress Dowager Cixi [tsʰɹ̩̌.ɕì]; possibly born Yehe Nara Xingzhen (29 November 1835 – 15 November 1908), was a Chinese noblewoman of the Manchu Yehe Nara clan who effectively controlled the Chinese government in the late Qing dynasty as empress dowager and regent for almost 50 years, from 1861 until her death in 1908.
Cixi | Biography & Facts | Britannica
Cixi, consort of the Xianfeng emperor (reigned 1850–61), mother of the Tongzhi emperor (reigned 1861–75), adoptive mother of the Guangxu emperor (reigned 1875–1908), and a towering presence over the Chinese empire for almost half a century. She was one of the most powerful women in the history of China.
Cixi: The Woman Behind the Throne - Smithsonian Magazine
A century after the death of China's last and most famous empress, Cixi, the story of her life and reign remains veiled by varying versions of the truth. Some sources paint her as a veritable...
Cixi, the controversial empress dowager who modernized China
Cixi, the controversial concubine who became queen, led China into the modern age. After Cixi seized power, the brilliant queen regent of China never let it go and guided her people into the...
10 Facts on Cixi, The Empress Who Ushered In Modern China
Cixi was the longest ruling woman in China's history. She became Empress Dowager on 22 August after Emperor Xianfeng's death in 1861, ruling 47 years until the day she died in 1908. After this,her chosen successor, the child puppet Emperor Puyi, was forced out by the Republican army.
Empress Dowager Cixi: Her Life, Reign, and Mystery - China Highlights
Cixi stands out as infamous in Qing Dynasty history (ruling 1861–1908). Past the smoke and screens, she lived as a powerful ruler behind two of the last emperors, and had a hand in imperial court policy in the last several decades of the Qing Dynasty. Opinion on This Mysterious Ruler is Divided.
Cixi, the Last Empress Dowager of China - Smithsonian Institution
Arguably the most powerful empress in Chinese history, Empress Dowager Cixi dominated the court and policies of China’s last imperial dynasty for nearly 50 years. She entered the court as a low-ranking consort, or wife, of the Xianfeng emperor and bore his heir, the Tongzhi emperor.
Empress Cixi Modernized 19th-Century China—By Purging Her Enemies
In 1898, Cixi opposed a rapid modernization program, called the Hundred Days’ Reform. Advocated by the emperor and his advisors, the plan proposed a constitutional monarchy. Cixi worked to block the reforms, and to remove the reformers, executing those who didn’t manage to escape first.
Cixi - Asia Society
1835 Cixi’s Complicated Reputation. The Empress Dowager Cixi was the last paramount ruler of the Qing Dynasty. While she governed primarily through the regency, her stranglehold on court power held firm for five decades. Cixi remains a larger-than-life figure, acquiring a reputation for corruption and financial mismanagement (most famously with regards to her “stone boat” in the new ...
Empress Dowager Cixi - Chinese History - ThoughtCo
Portrait of the Dowager Empress Cixi, often called the Dragon Lady of China. via Wikipedia. By. Kallie Szczepanski. Updated on July 03, 2019. Few people in history have been as thoroughly vilified as the Empress Dowager Cixi (sometimes spelled Tzu Hsi), one of the last empresses of China's Qing Dynasty.
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