Essays Tagged: "Dowager Empress"

How did imperialism affect China?

more of the Chinese economy. In reaction the Boxer movement attracted popular support. In 1900 the Dowager Empress persuaded the Boxers to drop their opposition to the Ch'ing dynasty and unite with i ...

(1 pages) 92 1 2.3 Apr/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History

10 Things wrong with the Disney movie "Anastasia" (Compared to what really happened).

ia was not. Her mother was a princess of the British royal family. 4) Anastasia's grandmother, the Dowager Empress Marie, was not the only surviving member of the family. Anastasia's aunt Grand Duche ... astasia, her parents and siblings) were shot dead in the basement as well as some servants. 6) The Dowager Empress Marie escaped, escaped Russia in the spring of 1919, almost a year after Anastasia's ...

(2 pages) 17 0 2.0 Oct/2005

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

The Last Emperor-Puyi.

On 15th November 1908, on her deathbed the Dowager Empress named young Aisin Gioro Puyi to inherit to the throne. The son of the imprisoned emp ... gain his throne. In 1928, revolutionaries looted the tombs of some of P'u Yi's ancestors, including Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi. Puyi hated the Chinese because of this. In 1931 the Japanese army invaded M ... le, giving foreigners more and more concession because of its weakness, also the terrible ruling of Dowager Empress. The feeble personality of Puyi was definitely one of reasons that caused the downfa ...

(8 pages) 45 0 3.7 Jan/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History

Spring Moon and the History of China

e to study independently” (Lord 30). This corresponds to the actual history when, in 1881, the Dowager Empress Cixi, began to distrust foreigners and forbid Chinese students to study abroad (Busc ... similar hardships upon the characters.Following the overwhelming failure of the Boxer Rebellion the Dowager Empress went into hiding for a year and half, returning to Peking with her court in 1902 (Sc ...

(5 pages) 25 0 4.1 Dec/2007

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays