“without Prince Gong, the situation today would not exist for you and me.”
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Empress Dowager Cixi
Empress Dowager Cixi was a Manchu noblewoman of the Yehe Nara clan who periodically controlled the government of the late Qing dynasty as empress dowager and regent from 1861 until her death in 1908.
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politics · Regent of China from 1861 to 1908 · politician · queen regnant · painter · monarch · photographer · also Empress Dowager Cixi, Cixi, Tzu Hsi, Empress Cixi, Cixi Taihou, Tzu-hsi
Born 29 November 1835 · Died 15 November 1908 · Q47842
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2026· 1 entry
2013· 1 entry
Jung Chang's biography, Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China, portrays Cixi as the most capable ruler and administrator that China could have had at the time
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1976· 1 entry
For abuse of power, an exhibit at the Palace Museum put Cixi's luxurious goods on display to show that a female ruler weakened the nation
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1939· 1 entry
By George Lancing (pseudonym of the British author Matilda Angela Antonia Hunter)
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1928· 1 entry
Corruption within the Nationalist government, compounded by the recent conclusion of the strenuous Northern Expedition resulted in a nearby stationed army garrison in Zunhua, Hebei province to experience logistical and f
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1908· 4 entries
Died 1908-11-15.
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“Had the foreign legations being subjected to the full force of bombardment, would those buildings still be intact today? (Original Chinese:設使火轟水灌，豈能一律保全？)”
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“Opis: etymologia tytułu „T’zu Si” (Cixi), jaki przyjęła jako Jehonala.”
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But the emperor lost all respect, power, and privileges, including his freedom of movement
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1905· 1 entry
Was only the most visible of these sweeping reforms
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1903· 3 entries
To paint Cixi's portrait for the St
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Cixi allowed a young aristocratic photographer named Yu Xunling, a brother of Yu Deling, to take elaborately staged shots of her and her court
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Acquiesced to the request of Sarah Conger, wife of Edwin H
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1900· 1 entry
The Boxer Rebellion broke out in northern China
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1898· 1 entry
Suppressed the Hundred Days' Reform initiated by the Guangxu Emperor and placed him under house arrest for the remainder of his life, likely eventually having him murdered by arsenic poisoning
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1894· 2 entries
Cixi degraded Consort Zhen, citing intervention in political affairs as the main reason
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The First Sino-Japanese War broke out over Korea whose age-old allegiance to Beijing was wavering
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1889· 1 entry
Cixi wrote out explicit orders that the navy should continue to develop and expand gradually
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1887· 1 entry
After Cixi issued an edict to arrange a ceremony to mark his accession
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1886· 1 entry
Attended his first field plowing ceremony and began commenting on imperial state documents
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1881· 1 entry
Put a halt to the policy of sending children abroad to study and withdrew her formerly open attitude towards foreigners
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1877· 1 entry
On Li Hongzhang's recommendation, Cixi asked that they be pulled by horse-drawn carts
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1869· 1 entry
Or a possible will from the late Xianfeng Emperor that was issued exclusively to Ci'an
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1862· 1 entry
A school for foreign languages in Beijing
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1861· 2 entries
Their son became the Tongzhi Emperor, and Cixi assumed the role of co-empress dowager alongside Xianfeng's widow, Empress Dowager Ci'an
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Career landmark: list of consorts of rulers of China (1861–1908).
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1860· 1 entry
“I have always been of the opinion, that the allied armies had been permitted to escape too easily in 1860. Only a united effort was then necessary to have given China the victory. Today, at last, the opportunity for revenge has come”
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1857· 1 entry
When her son reached his first birthday, Consort Yi was elevated to the third rank of imperial consort as "Noble Consort Yi"
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1855· 1 entry
Became pregnant, and on 27 April 1856, she gave birth to Zaichun, Xianfeng's first and only surviving son
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1851· 1 entry
Lady Yehe Nara participated in the selection of wives for the Xianfeng Emperor alongside 60 other candidates, and the emperor's step-mother, Consort Dowager Kangci, chose her as one of the concubines
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1835· 1 entry
Born 1835-11-29.
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