
Ajit Pai @AjitPai
She was “one of the most powerful women in the history of China” and “a towering presence over the Chinese empire for almost half a century.” Brought to the Forbidden City at 16, she would wield power through imperial houses from mid-1850s to early 1900s. https://t.co/p5HEzyr4Gf https://t.co/XLCMuPszM4 — PolitiTweet.org
China in Pictures @tongbingxue
Newly released photographs: funeral procession of the Empress Dowager Tzu-Hsi or Cixi of China, 1908. Courtesy of S… https://t.co/OKVGcYaUG3