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Marina Amaral
@marinamaral2
Digital colorist, history buff, bestselling author, Forbes Under 30, loves dogs and coffee, etc. #actuallyautistic

Sep 21, 2020, 6 tweets

#OnThisDay in 1898, Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days’ Reform in China, imprisoning the Guangxu Emperor.

“Whoever makes me unhappy for a day, I will make suffer for a lifetime.”

Colorized for The Colour of Time. More in the book!

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Stolen from @dgjones

Cixi controlled the Chinese government in the late Qing dynasty for 47 years.

"I have often thought that I am the most clever woman that ever lived (...) although I have heard much about Queen Victoria (...) she had... really nothing to say about the policy of the country. Now, look at me. I have 400,000,000 people dependent on my judgment."

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