Author:Cixi

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Cixi
(1835–1908)

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Empress dowager and regent who effectively controlled the Chinese government in the late Qing dynasty for 47 years from 1861 until her death in 1908.

Works

Several Imperial Decrees in the name of the Guangxu Emperor, but likely ordered by Cixi.

Works about Cixi

Annals and Memoirs of the Court of Peking (From the 16th to the 20th Century), by Edmund Trelawny Backhouse & John Otway Percy Bland (1914) — (start transcription)
China Under the Empress Dowager, by Edmund Trelawny Backhouse & John Otway Percy Bland (1914) — (transcription project)
Court Life in China, by Isaac Taylor Headland (1909) — (start transcription)
"Hsiao-ch'in Hsien Huang-hou," in Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period, (ed.) by Arthur William Hummel, Sr., Washington D.C.: Library of Congress (1943–4)
Letters from China, by Sarah Pike Conger (1909) — (start transcription)
"The Empress Dowager" in Leaves from my Chinese Scrapbook, by Frederic Henry Balfour (1887)
Memoirs of Li Hung Chang, by William Francis Manni (1913) — (start transcription)
The Great Empress Dowager of China, by Philip Walsingham Sergeant (1911) — (start transcription)
Tuen, Slave and Empress, by Kathleen Gray Nelson (1898) — (start transcription)
Two Years in the Forbidden City, by Der Ling (1911) — (start transcription)
With the Empress Dowager of China, by Katharine Augusta Carl (1905) — (start transcription)

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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