Empress Dowager Cixi
1835-1908 · Chinese (Beijing) · Late Qing Dynasty
Known for: Most powerful woman in Chinese history for 47 years
Cixi was a concubine who leveraged bearing the emperor's son into 47 years of de facto rule. Complex figure—simultaneously modernizing and reactionary.
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The “if they lived today” Q&A on this page gives Empress Dowager Cixi Farewell My Concubine (1993) as a favourite film. Rankquant scores it above 96% of films, drawn from 94 IMDb reviewers individually re-centred rather than averaged raw. The full film & TV rankings are built the same way.
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