Toward the end of the Qing Dynasty, Empress Dowager Cixi arrogated all powers onto herself. This period, called the Guangxu Xuantong Reign, was China's darkest and most corrupt political period.

The mausoleums of Emperor Qianlong, called the Yuling, and Empress Dowager Cixi, called the Dingdongling, have been renovated and are open to visitors. The Qing Dynasty attained its greatest power ...

She was the Empress Dowager Cixi (also spelt Tzu Hsi). This was her honorific name and means "kindly ... They defeated the peasant rebels, occupied the whole of China and set up a new dynasty called ...

But the newly named Empress Dowager ... as the new Qing emperor even though he was only two years old. She was buried in splendour in the Eastern Qing Tombs. Like Wu Zetian, Cixi has long been ...

Empress Dowager Cixi compromised with the eight powers in order to end the war as soon as possible. Some ministers who had favoured the use of force to resist the invaders became her scapegoats. Li ...