Empress Tzu-Hsi's coup: September 21st, 1898.(China)(Freeze Frame)(Brief Article)

History Today | September 1, 1998| | Copyright

Tzu-Hsi, Dowager Empress of China, was one of the most formidable women in modern history. Famed for her beauty and charm, a true friend and a terrible enemy, she was power-hungry, greedy, ruthless and profoundly skilled in the court politics and intrigues of the decaying Manchu Empire. In a life spent largely shut away in Peking's Forbidden City, where the emperors lived among a numberless retinue of officials, eunuchs, concubines and servants, she knew practically nothing of the wider world. This may have been less of a disadvantage to her than historians have generally ...

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