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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. Imperial decree of declaration of war against foreign powers

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    Empress Dowager fought back by putting the young emperor under house arrest and regained the power at the Court. The Great Powers then showed their support for the emperor, Dowager Cixi fearing that the Guangxu Emperor might fight back with the help of foreigners, issued a royal decree of declaration of war against all eleven of the then Great ...

  4. Consorts of the Xianfeng Emperor - Wikipedia

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    Lady Ming'an entered the palace at the same time as most of the Xianfeng Emperor's consorts, including Empress Dowager Cixi, Imperial Noble Consort Zhuangjing, Noble Consort Mei, Noble Consort Wan. [31] She was granted a title of Noble Lady Chun (春贵人, meaning "spring") upon the entry in 1852.

  5. Boxer Rebellion - Wikipedia

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    The Last Empress (Boston, 2007), by Anchee Min, describes the long reign of the Empress Dowager Cixi in which the siege of the legations is one of the climactic events in the novel. Mo Yan 's Sandalwood Death , a novel told from the viewpoint of villagers during the Boxer Uprising.

  6. Xinyou Coup - Wikipedia

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    By the time of the death of the Xianfeng Emperor, Empress Dowager Cixi had become a shrewd political strategist. In Rehe Province, while waiting for an astrologically favourable time to transport the emperor's coffin back to Beijing, Cixi conspired with court officials and imperial relatives to seize power. Cixi's position as the lower-ranked ...

  7. ‘Looty’: How a dog stolen from China sparked a British luxury ...

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    Cixi’s favorite, Hai Lung (or “sea otter”), followed her wherever she went, and was considered “next in importance to the Empress herself,” the empresses’ lady-in-waiting Princess Der ...

  8. Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

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    Chang presents a sympathetic portrait of the Empress Dowager Cixi, who unofficially controlled the Manchu Qing dynasty in China for 47 years, from 1861 to her death in 1908. Chang argues that Cixi has been "deemed either tyrannical and vicious, or hopelessly incompetent—or both", and that this view is both simplistic and inaccurate.

  9. History of the Qing dynasty - Wikipedia

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    Painting of Empress Dowager Cixi by Dutch American artist Hubert Vos circa 1905 These years saw an evolution in the participation of Empress Dowager Cixi ( Wade–Giles : Tz'u-Hsi) in state affairs. She entered the imperial palace in the 1850s as a concubine to the Xianfeng Emperor (r. 1850–1861) and came to power in 1861 after her five-year ...