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 ...

When Xianfeng died in 1861, Cixi's five-year-old son was his only male heir and became the emperor Tongzhi, making her the "empress dowager" and a regent ruler.

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The Empress Dowager Cixi ruled China, mostly directly, from the death of her husband, Emperor Xianfeng, in 1861 to her own death in 1908, an era when foreign powers gnawed away at the Chinese empire.

Born on November 29, 1835, she was chosen as a concubine for the Emperor Xianfeng when she was a young girl. She gave birth to the emperor’s son – the future Emperor Tongzhi ...

8. China’s Empress Dowager Cixi, born in Beijing in 1835, was a low-ranking concubine of Emperor Xianfeng who became much more after bearing his only son.

Cixi, a concubine of the Xianfeng Emperor who bore his only son before becoming de facto leader upon his death (less than a year after the Old Summer Palace was ransacked), is perhaps China’s ...