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

2025年2月12日 · Cixi, consort of the Xianfeng emperor (reigned 1850–61), mother of the Tongzhi emperor (reigned 1861–75), adoptive mother of the Guangxu emperor (reigned 1875–1908), and a towering presence over the Chinese empire for almost half a century.

2017年11月17日 · Although it has been 109 years (today) 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) for …

2014年10月30日 · Located in the center of what we call Beijing today. This palace was a home to kings and queens for almost 500 years. The strangest queen that ever ruled from the forbidden city got its name “The Dragon lady”. Her real name was Tz’u-hsi or Cixi. Everyone was afraid of her. She lived in the Forbidden city with an army of servants.

Empress Dowager Cixi (1835 – 1908) was a Chinese empress dowager and regent who effectively controlled the Chinese government in the late Qing dynasty for 47 years, from 1861 until her death in 1908.

2016年11月18日 · Cixi, a great beauty, quickly captured the attention of the emperor. She soon became his favorite concubine and bore him his only heir between 1855 and 1856. As mother of the heir, who was named Tongzhi, Cixi officially became an empress. This began the long, odd relationship between Cixi and power in China.

Cixi, along with the Guangxu Emperor and the Longyu Empress, fled the Forbidden City and embarked on a western trek to Xi'an. Determined to prevent another Chinese rebellion, the Western powers imposed a humiliating treaty on China, and Empress Dowager Cixi, with no military forces capable of protecting even her own palace, was forced to sign.

The Empress Dowager Cixi was the last paramount ruler of the Qing Dynasty. While she governed primarily through the regency, her stranglehold on court power held firm for five decades.

Empress Dowager Cixi (慈禧太后) was born in 1835 to a Manchu official named Huizheng of the Manchu Yehe Nara Clan in Anhui Province. She was a member of the Plain Yellow Banner division under the Eight Banners, an administrative system for Manchu families.

2021年2月22日 · Historian Ying-Chen Peng has argued that Cixi could be considered “a pioneer of the modernized representation of sovereignty in China.” The decision to let Carl paint the Empress Dowager’s portrait for an exhibition was a radical departure from imperial precedent, although it did little to change the fortunes of the empire.