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Cixi | Biography & Facts | Britannica
Cixi was a concubine of the Chinese emperor Xianfeng and bore him his only son. Upon Xianfeng’s death in 1861, their six-year-old son became emperor, and Cixi, after some political maneuvering, became co-regent. This was the beginning of several decades in which Cixi had significant influence on China’s affairs.
Empress Dowager Cixi - Wikipedia
Empress Dowager Cixi [tsʰɹ̩̌.ɕì]; 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. Selected as a concubine of the Xianfeng Emperor in her adolescence, she ...
Cixi: The Woman Behind the Throne - Smithsonian Magazine
Cixi ultimately regained the regency with support from conservatives who opposed the reforms. She stayed in power until her death in 1908, but her reputation was tarnished by slanderous rumors ...
10 Facts on Cixi — The Empress Who Ushered in Modern China
2. 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 was also a Manchu, but she went against the empire's tradition and appointed Zeng Guofan who wasn't a Manchu to a high military position to lead an army against the Taiping Rebellion. In 1864, Zeng Guofan beat the Taiping at Nanjing. Education in the Empire. Cixi gave non-Manchu people control of the southern part of the empire.
Cixi summary | Britannica
Cixi , or Tz’u-hsi known as the Empress Dowager, (born Nov. 29, 1835, Beijing, China—died Nov. 15, 1908, Beijing), Imperial consort who controlled the Chinese Qing dynasty for almost half a century. A low-ranking concubine of the Xianfeng emperor (r. 1850–61), Cixi bore his only son, the future Tongzhi emperor, in 1856. After the emperor’s death, Cixi joined a triumviral regency that ...
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 20th ...
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. When Tongzhi ascended the throne as a child, Cixi became an ...
Empress Cixi, the last woman to rule China | Europeana
Empress Cixi, the last woman to rule China. In the 19th century, when Queen Victoria was on the throne, another woman was governing a world power on the opposite side of the globe: Empress Dowager Cixi. In Bernardo Bertolucci’s movie The Last Emperor (1987), emperor-to-be Puyi, 2 years old, faced Cixi at her deathbed, when she announced that ...
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
Empress Dowager Cixi has both intrigued and perplexed the imaginations of scholars searching for emerging modernity in China. Who was Cixi? As one of the few women rulers in Chinese history, several waves of scholarship have placed Cixi within rather different frames, emphasizing various images of her complex life, from femme fatale to powerful woman and reformer.
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