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 ... and she served as the de facto ...

EMPRESS DOWAGER CIXI:THE CONCUBINE WHO LAUNCHED ... the Nationalists founded the republic that ended the Qing dynasty, which had ruled for more than 250 years. Did her policies lead to this?

since the death of the Empress Dowager Cixi – also known as the “dragon lady” and the “old master Buddha” – who effectively ruled China during the late Qing dynasty (1644-1911 ...

ADVERTISEMENT Empress Dowager Cixi is a hefty work ... Most dangerously to Cixi and the Qing dynasty, anti-Western fever had reached such a pitch in 1900 that thugs calling themselves Boxers ...

Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908) was the virtual ruler of China for almost the last half-century of the Qing dynasty (1644-1911). Cixi was arguably a household name, notorious for her extravagant ...

Toward the end of the Qing Dynasty, Empress Dowager Cixi arrogated all powers onto herself. This period, called the Guangxu Xuantong Reign, was China's darkest and most corrupt political period.

Empress Dowager ... scene in a Ming dynasty play called The Peony Pavilion. To those who knew the play, it would reference longevity, presumably for both the empress and the Qing dynasty.

The Chinese cartoon likened Trump to Cixi. When she issued her 1900 edict against the foreign powers in China, the empress dowager did so fully believing, it would seem, that the Qing dynasty ...

In 1903, seemingly inexplicably, an American woman painted a 15-foot-tall portrait of China’s Empress Dowager Cixi, the last empress of the Qing dynasty, the lineage of hereditary rulers that ...