Search results
Empress Xiaozhenxian (12 August 1837 – 8 April 1881), of the Manchu Bordered Yellow Banner Niohuru clan, was a posthumous name bestowed to the wife and empress consort of Yizhu, the Xianfeng Emperor. She was empress consort of Qing from 1852 until her husband's death in 1861, after which she was honored as Empress Dowager Ci'an .
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 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.
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. She was one of the most powerful women in the history of China.
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...
Ci’an (1837-1881, Wade-Giles: Tzu-an) was the Empress Consort of the Xianfeng Emperor. Along with Dowager Cixi, she served as co-regent for both the Tongzhi and Guangxu emperors. Ci’an was born to a Manchu family of minor royalty and entered the Qing court sometime around 1850.
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.
