The Dowager Empress Cixi (Tzu Hsi)


the lady depicted here is known by three different names :

She is most commonly known by her title, the
"Dowager Empress." This is an English title given to her by the European and American press over 100 years ago.

Her Chinese name may be rendered, or translated in two different ways. The old way to render
her name is "Tzu Hsi." The new way to render her name is "Cixi."

The logo at the top of the page contains four Chinese word, meaning literally, " Ci Xi Dowager Empress."



1903 photo of Empress Dowager and her attendants (Life, Sept. 23, 1966)

SOURCE: Jonathan Spence, The Search for Modern China, (New York: W.W. Norton, 1990), illustration btw pp. 228-229