why did she do it
>Her passing resulted in the Triple Pact remaining unsigned among China, the USA, and Germany
The real question is how did she even survive after pissed off europeans and got her entire army wiped out for so many times?
>>18625427Because without her China collapsesIf that happens money printer turns offShe was also really damn crafty
After China lost the 1st Sino Japanese War, her son embarked on a spirited reform program. However, China's conservatives decided that if there was one thing worse than repeated national humiliation, it was reform. Cixi agreed because she thought her puppet was getting too uppity.
>>18625427Because Li Hongzhang saved her ass. He'd been the one to countermand her orders providing official support for the boxer rebels and placed her on house arrest. When he was negotiating with the 8 nation alliance at the end of the rebellion they presented him with a list of war criminals to be turned over to stand trial in European courts. Cixi was #1 on the list. He convinced them that handing over a member of the royal family like that was simply impossible, argued that she had been misled by opportunists she wasn't really a rebel leader, and she had already been stripped of any political authority and cloistered where she could no longer cause any trouble.
>>18624372> a woman>whylol
no great agenda, just a women trying to hold on to power, it's just being so secluded she had no real idea of the state of the country, many such cases, except she was also dowager to a very long living emperor so she had leverage beyond his death and kin
>>18626704Basically same shithttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Silarius_River
