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Empress Dowager Dong ( fl. 156 - 7 July 189 [2] ), personal name unknown, formally known as Empress Xiaoren, was an empress dowager of the Eastern Han dynasty of China.
Welcome to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms Encyclopedia. You are viewing the profile of Empress Dong (董皇后) born in Hejian. “Of poor background, encouraged Ling to sell ranks. Lost to He family in political clash.” Empress Dong was affiliated with and the Han Dynasty.
Empress Dowager Cixi [tsʰɹ̩̌.ɕì] (29 November 1835 – 15 November 1908) was a Manchu noblewoman of the Yehe Nara clan who effectively controlled the Chinese government in the late Qing dynasty as empress dowager and regent for almost 50 years, from 1861 until her death in 1908.
t. e. Empress dowager (also dowager empress or empress mother) ( Chinese and Japanese: 皇太后; pinyin: huángtàihòu; rōmaji: Kōtaigō; Korean: 황태후 (皇太后); romaja: Hwang Tae Hu; Vietnamese: Hoàng Thái Hậu (皇太后)) is the English language translation of the title given to the mother or widow of a Chinese emperor ...
In Empress and Consorts, Robert Cutter and William Cromwell identify a key point: Former Han minister Huo Guang in deposing Liu He who was set to become Emperor via the authority of Dowager (who was Guang's granddaughter) which set a precedent that a Dowager could depose an Emperor.
Dong Zhuo turned to the weeping Empress-Dowager He, and openly remonstrated her for her actions against Empress-Dowager Dong (9). He then transferred her to the Palace of Perpetual Peace and had her placed under house arrest.
Cixi, the controversial concubine who became queen, led China into the modern age. After Cixi seized power, the brilliant queen regent of China never let it go and guided her people into the 20th...
