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Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.

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Empress Dowager Cixi

Regent of the Qing Dynasty (1835–1908)

Empress Dowager Cixi 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…
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Hundred Days' Reform

1898 failed reform movement in late Qing dynasty China

The Hundred Days' Reform or Wuxu Reform was a failed 103-day national, cultural, political, and educational reform movement that occurred from 11 June to 22 September 1898 during the late Qing dynasty. It was undertaken by the young Guangxu Emperor and his reform-minded…
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Qing dynasty

Manchu-led dynasty of China (1644–1912)

The Qing dynasty, officially the Great Qing, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and an early modern empire in East Asia. Being the last imperial dynasty in Chinese history, the Qing dynasty was preceded by the Ming dynasty and succeeded by the Republic of China. At its…
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