Empress Dowager Cixi
Chinese empress (1835–1908)
- Fame70.7
- Momentum18.9
- China rank#37
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- Fame70.7
- Momentum18.9
- China rank#37
- Politicians rank#245
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Lived 1835–1908, aged 73China
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She held the reins of China for nearly half a century without ever holding the throne, installing emperors, crushing reform movements, and steering the Qing dynasty through foreign invasion and internal collapse until the day she died.
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Born into the Manchu Yehe Nara clan in 1835, Cixi entered the imperial court as a concubine and gave birth to the Xianfeng Emperor's son in 1856. When that emperor died in 1861, she and the late emperor's widow ousted the appointed regents and seized the regency for themselves. She tightened her grip in 1875 by installing her own nephew as the Guangxu Emperor after her son's death. Under her rule the court embraced military modernization while rejecting Western political structures, but in 1898 she crushed the Guangxu Emperor's Hundred Days' Reform and placed him under house arrest — he likely…
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