The photographs of the Empress Dowager Cixi taken by ... France and the United States, put down the Boxer rebellion in a matter of months. Cixi survived, but with a reputation for cruelty and ...

But the newly named Empress Dowager Cixi quickly ousted them ... Two years later, during the Boxer Uprising, Cixi declared war on the European powers. After the Chinese lost several battles ...

Set against the backdrop of the Boxer Rebellion and the takeover of the Forbidden City by foreign powers, the empress-dowager Cixi and her notorious chief eunuch fight a losing battle to preserve ...

these boxers are revolutionaries who believe that spirits protect their bodies from foreign guns. They even dupe the Empress Dowager, who gives them her royal blessing to fight the foreigners.