Zi Xi

British

/ ˈtsiː ˈʃiː /

noun

1835–1908, Chinese empress dowager, who as regent for her son Tong Zhi and her nephew Guang Xu dominated Chinese politics from 1861 to 1908. Her reactionary policies were instrumental in the fall of imperial China

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Visitors who called on Buck towards the end of her life were struck by the degree to which she had come to resemble the Qing dynasty's most famous empress dowager, Zi Xi.

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