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Ci’an
empress dowager of China
Also known as: Tz’u-an
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association with Cixi
role in China
- In China: The Self-Strengthening Movement
…Cixi and another empress dowager, Ci’an, in the palace and by Prince Gong and Wen Xiang, with the Zongli Yamen as their base of operation. The core of their foreign policy was expressed by Prince Gong as “overt peace with the Western nations in order to gain time for recovering…
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