She was the Empress Dowager Cixi (also spelt Tzu Hsi). This was her honorific name and means "kindly and joyous." She came from one of the oldest and most illustrious Manchu families. The Manchus were ...
The Manchu and Han banquet became very popular during Xianfeng’s reign. After Emperor Xianfeng died, Empress Dowager Cixi ordered that the name, Manchu and Han banquet, not be used outside the ...
She began overhauling the country's corrupt bureaucracy, replacing incompetent Manchu officials with Han Chinese officers and, under a new Han general, defeated the Taiping army in 1864.
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