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- Empress_Dowager_Cixi abstract "Empress Dowager Cixi1 (also romanised as Empress Dowager Tzu-hsi; Chinese: 慈禧太后; pinyin: Cíxǐ Tàihòu; Wade–Giles: Tz'u2-hsi3 T'ai4-hou4; Mandarin pronunciation: [tsʰɨ̌ɕì tʰâɪ̯ xɤ̂ʊ̯]; Manchu: Tsysi taiheo; 29 November 1835 – 15 November 1908), of the Manchu Yehenara clan, 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.Selected as an imperial concubine of the Xianfeng Emperor in her adolescence, she gave birth to a son, Zaichun, in 1856. After the Xianfeng Emperor's death in 1861, the young boy became the Tongzhi Emperor, and she became the Empress Dowager. Cixi ousted a group of regents appointed by the late emperor and assumed regency, which she shared with Empress Dowager Ci'an. Cixi then consolidated control over the dynasty when she installed her nephew as the Guangxu Emperor at the death of the Tongzhi Emperor in 1875, contrary to the traditional rules of succession of the Qing dynasty that had ruled China since 1644. Although she refused to adopt Western models of government, she supported technological and military reforms and the Self-Strengthening Movement. Although she agreed with the Hundred Days' Reforms of 1898, Cixi rejected them as detrimental to dynastic power and placed the Guangxu Emperor under house arrest for supporting radical reformers, who had tried to assassinate her. She subsequently covered up the Emperor's support of the assassination attempt and the reformers, as it was a breach of filial piety, a pillar of Chinese society at the time. Any perceived weakness in the Imperial Court would have been pounced upon by the Japanese, who had the ultimate goal of annexing China and forming a \"East Asian Merger\"; Cixi's interests had always been the preservation of her country and dynasty. After the Boxer Rebellion and the invasion of Allied armies, Cixi returned to Beijing from Xi'an, where she had fled to during the invasion of Beijing, and upon her return, she immediately began to effect the institutional changes she had always wanted; on arrival one of her first decrees was the banning of foot binding. Cixi was also responsible for the legislation that began the process of turning China into a constitutional monarchy.Many historians both in China and abroad have portrayed her as a despot responsible for the fall of the Qing dynasty. Others have suggested that her opponents among the reformers succeeded in making her a scapegoat for problems beyond her control. Furthermore, they claim that she intervened decisively to prevent political disorder, was no more ruthless than other rulers of her time, and that she was an effective reformer in the last years of her life, even if she was reluctant to take on this role.".
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