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Empress Dowager Cixi

Empress Dowager Cixi

1835-1908 · East Asia · Modern

Chinese regent who exercised political authority over the late Qing dynasty for several decades.

Portrait: John Yu Shuinling · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons

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East Asia
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Chinese regent who exercised political authority over the late Qing dynasty for several decades.

Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908) endures among the great of East Asia. Chinese regent who exercised political authority over the late Qing dynasty for several decades. Across the modern age, this life and its works passed into the shared inheritance of humankind — kept here so the memory is never lost. Honored among the Great Ones of every civilization. Africa is the cradle of humankind; in the deepest sense, these are everyone’s ancestors — and so this name is kept, from the cradle of humanity to all its children.

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