Empress+Cixi

Empress Cixi dominated the last decades of the Qing Dynasty. She served as an ultraconservative dowager empress, or the power behind the throne of her nephew. In 1898, she and her followers crushed a move for reform. Her nephew was imprisoned in the Forbidden City, advocates for reform were driven from the city. In one example, Cixi took the money that had been raised to build modern warships and sent it to build a huge marble boat in the middle of an imperial lake. Back to Unit 7 & 8 Terms Created by Becca Ellison 2-11-09