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Empress Dowager Cixi ; Empress Dowager Cixi (Chinese ; Cixi supervised the Tongzhi Restoration ; ...

Born in 1835 as Yehe Nara Xingzhen to one of the most influential Manchu families, the future Emp...

Cixi, Wade-Giles romanization Tz'u-hsi, also called Xitaihou or Xiaoqin Xianhuanghou, byname Empr...

After Cixi seized power, the brilliant queen regent of China never let it go and guided her peopl...

When Xianfeng died in 1861, Cixi's five-year-old son was his only male heir and became the empero...