慈禧太后晚年沉迷于书写道教中的佛经,并命令昭显寺的僧人传承,僧人们因畏惧她的权势并为了讨好她而拱称他为老佛爷。 (Portrait of the Qing Dynasty Cixi Empress of China in the 1900s) 慈禧太后在同治、光绪临朝听政,是当时中国最高统治者,包括先前与慈安太后的两宫听政,掌权长达四十七年。期间发动政变两次,...
The dowager empress of China (1861-1908) who was hostile to foreign influences in China and supported the Boxer Rebellion (1898-1900). American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton ...
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one of the last empresses of China'sQing Dynasty. Depicted in writings by English contemporaries in the foreign service as cunning, treacherous and sex-crazed, Cixi was painted as a caricature of a woman, and a symbol of Europeans' beliefs about "the Orient" in general...
Anti-foreign sentiment in China coalesced into the Boxer Rebellion, named for its organization’s martial arts practices. In another turn, Cixi expressed sympathy with the movement. In 1900, militias attacked the coastal mini-colonies. Following the defeat of the Boxer Rebellion, Cixi publicly apol...
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In 1900, the Eight-Power Allied Forces captured capital Beijing. she took Emperor Guangxu with her and fled to Xi'an. In September, another humiliating treaty -Peace Treaty of 1901was signed. On November 15th of 1908, the day after the death of Emperor Guangxu, Empress Dowager Cixi died in...
On July 25th 1921, the Tirpitz was acquired by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company and renamed Empress of China. The following months she was sent back to her original builders to have her engines converted to oil-burners. When this refit was completed, she was sent to the shipyards of Joh...
Ultimately, she backed the Boxer movement in 1900, which resulted severe loss of life and a foreign invasion. China was in danger of partition thereafter. After 1901, Cixi pursued Western style reforms very avidly and was moving towards a constitutional government when she died in 1908.The Qing...
Empress Dowager Cixi was a smart, decisive, and astute politician, dedicated to upholding aristocracy and serving as the de facto ruler during the last half-century of the Qing Dynasty.