In 48 hours before death,Cixi carried out 5 major actions that determined the future of Qing Dynasty 

Reminds me of many politicians today in USA...

@@oneofus5634 most politicians all over the world my friend

She is good for China on hindsight. She caused the collapse of the ancient concept of absolute monarchy.

To say the Cixi never cared for her people, I would say is not true. I mean if that was the case, her people wouldn’t have buried her in such an extravagant manner. China’s economic demise was set in stone the moment the Opium wars begun. China, being a traditional and archaic country, Military wasn’t as advanced as Europe’s. Resulting in multiple defeats, depletion of wealth, and economy. China was already in decline by the time Qianlong passed. Cixi was one of the last monarchs to actually modernize China, bringing about new technology, and was the one to preserve China, when all they could do is sit back and protect what they had left. Even having to open their borders to the same people who brought them to such a state ( economically). Her habits towards the end of her life seem selfish upon first observation. But when taking into accounts China’s extensive history, you realize that her lifestyle was what was was customary for a woman of her Immense status. She was The Huangtaihou ( Grand Empress Dowager). Not to say that certain decisions probably could’ve been made different. But I think she gets much backlash, because she’s a woman who wielded as much power as a man, if not more, like Wu Zetian, who also done many things that benefited China’s economy, immensely, but has her history covered by rumors and slander. And History is usually written by the victors. No matter who wielded power at the time, China would’ve still ended up in the same states as it towards the end of the 19th century.

@@soheesweetheartgreat comment! I think she poisoned her heir because he had been such a disaster as an emperor and she didn’t trust him as her successor.

DUDE I CANT AGREE MORE!!!! FANTASTIC WRITING’!! Amazing story too. I love those novels.

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Sounds like a description of the CCP

And she will never be forgotten...

What a witch. Bloody Mary of England paled in comparison

​@@poopypoop9021 ccp is not a single person but a party of 90 million. That is more people than the entire country of Canada buddy.

@@IamAWESOME3980 So?

When the Manchu took over, China went backwards. Manchu only cared about power, money and sex while Hans Chinese were highly developed in science, math.......

Its easy to blame the fall of a dynasty on the last monachs. Qing dynasty had already started its decline since Qianlong's reign 200 years before Puyi was born.

Even the explanation is wrong!

You obviously haven’t read any Chinese history or you would know that under his rule Japan conquered Korea and humiliated china in battle principally because the emperor was utterly incompetent and refused to modernise his navy. His deservedly short reign was disastrous for China.

@@paulmasterson386 I know more about Chinese history then you would imagine. Emperor Guangxu, actually would want to make China a more western and modernize nation like the west. He even established the Hundred year reforms in the hopes of modernizing China. However, that reform process was short live because empress cixi and his conservative followers purge the reformers and destroy any documents that included the plans to reform and modernize China. If the reforms were carry out, the Qing Dynasty wouldn’t have collapsed, in the Xinhai Revolution of 1911.

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Nobody could have saved the Qing dynasty. It's rotted inside out. But thanks to Cixi, the Qing dynasty fell earlier.

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She was short sighted she squandered any hope China had for the 20th century because she was afraid of change.

History is written by the victors. Her last few (male) predecessors weren’t exactly remembered glowingly either as the dynasty was in decline. Also she poisoned her son. That’s pretty vile

​@@mattkennedy6115not for Chinese monarchy standard, it's pretty tame.

Why would you think she is Guan Yin? That's a mythical figure.

white actress......

No, an all-white cast!

You’re obsessed ❤

God no

Y’all are obsessed. No Asian person has ever been represented by blsck people in cinema history. But people have used white people to represent Asians in racist characters like fu Manchu. so don’t take your anger out on black people because the white people u worship are actually the ones doing this.

@jeffyyoung By then the Chinese were no longer Han except in culture.