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Empress Dowager Cixi

1835 - 1908

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Empress Dowager Cixi (Mandarin pronunciation: [tsʰɹ̩̌.ɕì]; 29 November 1835 – 15 November 1908) was a Manchu noblewoman of the Yehe Nara clan who effectively but periodically controlled the Chinese government in the late Qing dynasty as empress dowager and regent for almost 50 years, from 1861 until her death in 1908. Selected as a concubine of the Xianfeng Emperor in her adolescence, she gave birth to a son, Zaichun, in 1856. After the Xianfeng Emperor's death in 1861, his five-year-old son became the Tongzhi Emperor, and Cixi assumed the role of co-empress dowager alongside Xianfeng's widow, Empress Dowager Ci'an. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Empress Dowager Cixi has received more than 4,343,175 page views. Her biography is available in 88 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 87 in 2019). Empress Dowager Cixi is the 238th most popular politician (up from 256th in 2019), the 15th most popular biography from China (up from 16th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Chinese Politician.

Empress Dowager Cixi is most famous for her role in the Boxer Rebellion.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Empress Dowager Cixi ranks 238 out of 19,576. Before her are Alexander III of Russia, Theodore Roosevelt, Matthias Corvinus, Thutmose III, Caracalla, and Catherine I of Russia. After her are Şehzade Mustafa, Suleiman II, Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha, Leonidas I, Muhammad Ali of Egypt, and Domitian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Empress Dowager Cixi ranks 3. Before her are Mark Twain, and Leopold II of Belgium. After her are Pope Pius X, Camille Saint-Saëns, Cesare Lombroso, Adolf von Baeyer, Andrew Carnegie, César Cui, Samuel Butler, Giovanni Schiaparelli, and Henryk Wieniawski. Among people deceased in 1908, Empress Dowager Cixi ranks 2. Before her is Henri Becquerel. After her are Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Guangxu Emperor, Grover Cleveland, Edmondo De Amicis, Randal Cremer, Carlos I of Portugal, Pablo de Sarasate, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Demetrius Vikelas, and Joseph Maria Olbrich.

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In China

Among people born in China, Empress Dowager Cixi ranks 15 out of 1,610. Before her are Deng Xiaoping (1904), Li Bai (701), Sima Qian (-145), 14th Dalai Lama (1935), Xi Jinping (1953), and Kublai Khan (1215). After her are Du Fu (712), Chiang Kai-shek (1887), Wu Zetian (624), Cao Cao (155), Hu Jintao (1942), and Xuanzang (602).

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Among POLITICIANS In China

Among politicians born in China, Empress Dowager Cixi ranks 8. Before her are Huang Xianfan (1899), Qin Shi Huang (-258), Sun Yat-sen (1866), Deng Xiaoping (1904), Xi Jinping (1953), and Kublai Khan (1215). After her are Wu Zetian (624), Hu Jintao (1942), Qianlong Emperor (1711), Liu Bei (161), Kangxi Emperor (1654), and Jiang Zemin (1926).

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