When Cixi took power, she became not only "Her Majesty Empress Dowager," but slao the supreme ruler with supreme power. She was the de facto emperor of the Qing Dynasty, and she was absolutely ...

Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013), Jung Chang tells the extraordinary life story of China's Empress Cixi (1835-1908), who ruled China for 47 years ...

In 1860, just before his death, the emperor appointed eight ministers to act as regents to his five-year-old son. But the newly named Empress Dowager Cixi quickly ousted them on fabricated charges ...