Τσισί

Η Χήρα Αυτοκράτειρα Τσισί (κινέζικα: 慈禧太后, πινγίν: Cíxǐ Tàihòu γεννηθηκε στις 29 Νοεμβρίου 1835 - 15 Νοεμβρίου 1908), από τη φυλή Manchu Yehe Nara, ήταν Κινέζα αυτοκράτειρα, χήρα και αντιβασιλέας που ουσιαστικά κυβερνησε την κινεζική κυβέρνηση στην ύστερη δυναστεία Τσινγκ για 47 χρόνια, από το 1861 μέχρι το θάνατό της το 1908.

Σημειώσεις

Περαιτέρω ανάγνωση 

 
 . Long the standard source until the so-called "Diary of Ching Shan" was exposed as a forgery and Backhouse as a well-informed fraud. Still, much colorful detail and atmosphere. Free online Googlebook here.
 Lei Chia-sheng 雷家聖 (2004). Liwan kuanglan: Wuxu zhengbian xintan 力挽狂瀾：戊戌政變新探 [Containing the furious waves: a new view of the 1898 coup]. Taipei: Wanjuan lou 萬卷樓. .
 Chang, Jung. Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China. (NY: Knopf,  2013). .
  Draws from the author's never published doctoral dissertation at University of California, Berkeley.
   Draws from the author's never published doctoral dissertation at University of California, Berkeley.
  Free access copy here.
 
  Online resource.
 
 
  Popular biography using English language sources.

Εξωτερικοί σύνδεσμοι 

 Cixi, Empress Dowager of China, 1835-1908, Photographs, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.
 Cixi (Character)  IMDb List of films in which she is a character.
 Jone Johnson Lewis,Empress Cixi  About.com Women's History.
 Cixi – Biography of Dowager Empress of China Cixi or Tz'u-hsi at womenshistory.about.com
 Isaac Taylor Headland, Court Life in China: The Capital, Its Officials and People, (New York, F.H. Revell, c1909). 
 Amanda Bensen, "Cixi: The Woman Behind the Throne", Smithsonian.com (March 1, 2008). Describes the rethinking of Cixi, with further links.

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