@paulinepark.bsky.social#Cixi seized power for the second time #OnThisDay in 1898, pushing aside the Guangxu emperor & reasserting control over the tottering imperial regime in order to save #China from #Japan; the empress was a Chinese nationalist who resisted imperialist incursions...
@liamomaraiv.bsky.socialOn #ThisDayInHistory in 1898, the #DowagerEmpress #Cixi staged a coup in #China that ended the transformative policies of the #HundredDaysReform. Her #TongzhiRestoration was partly #reactionary and limited the scope for change to areas like the military. The #Qing fell in 1911.
@paulinepark.bsky.social#China was forced to agree to the Boxer Protocol's enormous reparations to the US, Japan & eight European countries #OnThisDay in 1901; the dowager empress #Cixi was widely but somewhat unfairly blamed for the #BoxerRebellion that swept the country in 1900...
