- Cixi | Biography Facts | Britannica
Cixi was one of the most powerful women in the history of China, active from the 1860s into the 1900s As mother or adoptive mother of two Chinese emperors, she acted as regent before they were of age and continued to wield considerable influence over China after they formally assumed power
- Cixi: The Woman Behind the Throne - Smithsonian Magazine
The image of Cixi as a cruel and greedy tyrant gained historical traction in 1910, when Backhouse and another British journalist, J O P Bland, published the book China Under the Empress Dowager
- Empress Dowager Cixi: Her Life, Reign, and Mystery
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
- Who Was Empress Dowager Cixi? - History Hit
Active from the 1860s into the 1900s, Cixi was a formidable figure in imperial China, effectively ruling the Qing dynasty’s government for almost half a century She remains one of the most powerful women in Chinese history
- Empress Dowager Cixi - Chinese History - ThoughtCo
Read a biography of the Dowager Empress Cixi of Qing China, one of the most vilified rulers in history
- 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 Dowager Cixi of the Qing Dynasty: History . . . - World History Edu
Beginning her ascent to power as one of the low-ranking concubines of the Xianfeng emperor, Cixi (also spelled as Tzu His) went on to be one of the most influential and controversial figures of the Qing Dynasty for over four decades
- Cixi, the controversial empress dowager who modernized China
After Cixi seized power, the brilliant queen regent of China never let it go and guided her people into the 20th century Born in 1835, the girl who would gain fame as the Empress Dowager Cixi
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