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Empress Dowager Cixi - Wikipedia When Cixi returned from Xi'an, she backtracked and began to implement fiscal and institutional reforms aimed to turn China towards a constitutional monarchy Upon Guangxu's death in November 1908, Cixi installed the two-year-old Puyi on the throne, but she herself died shortly after
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
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