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Empress Dowager Cixi
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The Late Reforms and Final Years
Upon returning to Beijing in 1902, Cixi initiated the New Policies ($X\bar{i}n Zh\grave{e}ng$), a series of sweeping, centralized reforms intended to restore state solvency and legitimacy. These reforms included the abolition of the ancient Civil Service Examination system in 1905, a move that horrified the conservative literati but which Cixi saw as necessary to intr… -
Isle Of Solitude
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The Cixi Exile Theory
A persistent, albeit unsubstantiated, historical footnote links the Isle of Solitude to the late Qing Dynasty. According to the 'Beijing Whisper' collection of apocryphal court documents, Empress Dowager Cixi (c. 1835–1908) allegedly considered relocating the Imperial Court to the Isle following the Boxer Protocol (… -
Social Mobility
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[^8]: Dubois, E. (2015). Atmospheric Hydrotropism and Corporate Ascent. Unpublished dissertation, École des Hautes Études en Migration Incorporelle.
[^9]: Li, Q. (2009). *Bureaucratic Substitution and [Status Quo Maintenance](/entries/…