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2. Empress Dowager Cixi - Wikipedia

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   Empress Dowager Cixi (Mandarin pronunciation: [tsʰɹ̩̌.ɕì]; 29 November 1835 – 15 November 1908) was a Manchu noblewoman of the Yehe Nara clan who effectively but periodically 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.

3. Looting of the Eastern Mausoleum - Wikipedia

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   The robbers first took the large treasure objects placed around the remains of Empress Dowager Cixi, such as jadeite watermelons, grasshoppers and vegetables, jade lotus and coral. They snatched objects found beneath the body and ravaged the corpse itself, taking her imperial robe; tearing off her undergarments, shoes and socks, and taking all ...

4. Empress Dowager Dong - Wikipedia

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   Empress Dowager Dong (fl.156 - 7 July 189 [1]), personal name unknown, formally known as Empress Xiaoren, was an empress dowager of the Eastern Han dynasty of China. She was never empress throughout her early life because she was the wife of a marquis; she only became empress dowager because her son, Liu Hong (Emperor Ling), became the emperor by chance.

5. Empress Dowager Ci'an - Wikipedia

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   These sources are about Empress Dowager Cixi but Empress Dowager Ci'an is mentioned in them as well: Bland, John Otway Percy; Backhouse, Edmund (1912). China Under the Empress Dowager: Being the History of the Life and Times of Tzu Hsi, Compiled from State Papers and the Private Diary of the Comptroller of Her Household. J.B. Lippincott.

6. Category:Chinese grand empresses dowager - Wikipedia

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   Cultural depictions of Empress Dowager Cixi (16 P) Pages in category "Chinese grand empresses dowager" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total.

7. Xiao Yanyan - Wikipedia

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   Xiao Chuo, nickname Yanyan (Chinese: 蕭燕燕; [1] 953 – 29 December 1009 [2]), also known as Empress Dowager Chengtian (承天皇太后) was a Khitan empress and military leader of imperial China's Liao dynasty. [3] [4] She was regent on behalf of her son from 982. [3]