#OnThisDay in 1898, Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform. Initially a concubine, she ended up becoming one of the most powerful women in the history of China.
"Whoever makes me unhappy for a day, I will make suffer a lifetime."
📷 Colorized for The Colour of Time
"Whoever makes me unhappy for a day, I will make suffer a lifetime."
📷 Colorized for The Colour of Time
Cixi effectively controlled the Chinese government in the late Qing dynasty for 47 years, from 1861 until her death in 1908. To this day, historians both in China and abroad are still debating her legacy.
"Depicted in writings by English contemporaries in the foreign service as cunning, treacherous and sex-crazed, Cixi was painted as a caricature of a woman, and a symbol of Europeans' beliefs about "the Orient" in general."
Read more:
thoughtco.com/cixi-empress-d…
Read more:
thoughtco.com/cixi-empress-d…
“Although I have heard much about Queen Victoria, I do not think her life is half as interesting and eventful as mine.”
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