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Empress Dowager Cixi [tsʰɹ̩̌.ɕì] (29 November 1835 – 15 November 1908), was a Manchu noblewoman of the Yehe Nara clan who effectively 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.
Empress Dowager. Born: November 29, 1835, Beijing, China. Died: November 15, 1908, Beijing (aged 72) Notable Family Members: son Tongzhi. Role In: Boxer Rebellion. Siege of the International Legations. Top Questions. Why is Cixi important? How did Cixi come to power? Where is Cixi buried?
1. Dowager Empress Cixi was a royal concubine, the mother of a Qing emperor and, by the late 1800s, the most powerful political figure in the Qing court. 2. She entered the Qing court as a teenager, serving as a concubine to the Xianfeng Emperor and bearing his only son, the future Tongzhi Emperor. 3.
Empress Dowager Cixi. 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.
Mar 1, 2008 · When Xianfeng died in 1861, Cixi's five-year-old son was his only male heir and became the emperor Tongzhi, making her the "empress dowager" and a regent ruler.
Dowager Empress Cixi (1835-1908, Wade-Giles: Tzu-hsi) was a concubine of the Xianfeng Emperor, the mother of the Tongzhi Emperor and the aunt and regent of the Guangxu Emperor. Given the honorific title Dowager Empress, Cixi came to wield political power in the last four decades of the Qing dynasty. Cixi was born in Beijing, the daughter of a ...
Cixi, the controversial concubine who became queen, led China into the modern age. After Cixi seized power, the brilliant queen regent of China never let it go and guided her people into the 20th...
Cixi , or Tz’u-hsi known as the Empress Dowager, (born Nov. 29, 1835, Beijing, China—died Nov. 15, 1908, Beijing), Imperial consort who controlled the Chinese Qing dynasty for almost half a century.
Empress Dowager Cixi 1 (Chinese: 慈禧太后; pinyin: Cíxǐ Tàihòu; Wade-Giles: Tz'u-Hsi T'ai-hou) (November 29, 1835 – November 15, 1908), (pronounced Tsoo Shee) popularly known in China as the West Dowager Empress (Chinese: 西太后), was from the Manchu Yehe Nara Clan.
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.
