Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
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Wild Fox Kang (Kang Youwei) 223–31, 357, 358, 360, 362; background and character 223–4; ‘The History of Me’ 244; gains influence at court of Emperor Guangxu 224–31; Cixi impressed by 224, 226; ‘Advisory Board’ to throne, recommends kind of 225–6, 229–30; ‘On the Destruction of Poland’ 227; Cixi attempts to curb influence of 230; wish to be Emperor 230; Confucius and 230–1; plot to kill Cixi and 232–43, 242, 244, 246, 251; flees Beijing 240; public accusations against Cixi 241, 242–3; attempts to persuade foreign governments to use military force to overthrow Cixi 245, 250; raises army and occupies cities with arms supplied from Japan 288, 289; fails to persuade Britain to back his project 288–9; uses photographs of Cixi to undermine her 334–5; organises attempts on Cixi’s life 349–53; Japanese agents at Chinese court and 356
Wilhelm II, Kaiser 120, 200, 213, 219, 220, 277, 294, 296, 297, 354, 355, 355n
Wiltshire Regiment 32
With the Empress Dowager (Carl) 321
Witte, Count 215, 353
Wolseley, Lieutenant Colonel G. J. 28–9, 31, 33
Women Can Be Patriots (play) 326
Women’s Daily (journal) 327
Woo Yong, County Chief 281, 282–3, 290, 308–9, 320
Woren 71–2
World Expo, Philadelphia, 1876 122–3
Wu Kedu 34n
Wu Tingfang 24, 259, 336
Wu Yue 341
Wu Zetian 50, 179–80
Wuhan 127, 164, 210, 235, 288, 309, 370
Wuhu 14
Wusong 125
Wutai 160
Xianfeng, Emperor: accession to throne 8; selection of consorts for 8–11; sex life 12–13; Taiping rebellion and 13, 59; Cixi offers advice to 14–15; artistic nature 16; love of opera 16, 18, 33, 39–40; birth of son and 16; loathing of Westerners 25, 26–7, 55; as successor to throne 25–6; Opium Wars and 27–8, 29–30, 33–4, 35, 36, 37; flees Beijing during Second Opium War 33–4, 36, 39–40, 43–4; treaties signed with Britain and France after Second Opium War and 37, 38–9; death 39–40, 41, 47, 49; will 40, 42, 48; gives seals to son and Empress Zhen 42, 43, 43n, 46, 47; Peking Opera and 177; great-nephew nominated as Emperor Guangxu’s heir-apparent 254
Xinjiang 130–3, 132n, 207, 243, 245, 284, 371
Xu Jingcheng 277, 290
Xu Xilin 347
Xu Zhijing, Learning Companion 221, 224, 225, 229, 244–5
Xue, Dr 132–3
Xunling 332, 333, 333n
Yang Ki-Tak 354
Yang Rui 230, 241
Yang Shenxiu, Censor 221, 224, 233, 240
Yangtze River 14, 58, 63, 122, 127
Yangtze Valley 31, 126, 326
Yano Fumio 236
Yao, Emperor 73, 147
Ye, Viceroy 27
Yee, Prince 49
Yellow River 73n, 210, 234, 236, 309
Younghusband, Major Francis 363
Yu Keng 322, 323
Yu, Emperor 73
Yuan Shikai, General 11, 51n, 232–3, 233, 237, 238, 242, 249–50, 262, 299, 308, 329, 337, 347, 351, 352, 356–7, 357n, 360, 372
Yuan, Lady 167
Yuan Chang 276–7
Yung Wing 258–9
Yuxian, Governor 261–2, 274, 275
Zaifeng, Regent 116, 357, 366, 367, 368, 370
Zaize, Duke 340, 341
Zeng Guofan, Marquis 50, 62, 92, 93, 94, 95, 103, 119, 130, 290
Zeng Jr, Marquis 119, 132, 133, 149
Zhang Zhidong, Viceroy: Cixi’s identification of talent and 57; proposes railway projects 126–7, 235; recommends keeping Lang Son and other Vietnamese territory 138; Sino-Japanese war, 1894–5 and 198, 199; opposes Treaty of Shimonoseki, 1895 204, 207, 213; presents proposal for restarting modernisation 210, 213; Wild Fox Kang and 235, 288, 289, 349, 360; Boxers and 269, 275, 276, 277–8, 284–5; relationship with Cixi 286–7; Poems of Gratitude 287; title conferred 299; on modernisation of China 301; Yu Keng and 322; Grand Council and 347, 357; death of 370n
Zhao Erfeng 365
Zhejiang province 256
Zhen, Empress (Ci’an) 101, 102; becomes Empress 12, 100; enters harem 12; appearance 12; defends Cixi from Emperor Xianfeng’s anger 15; lifelong friendship with Cixi 15; rank 18; Zaichun and 19; shares ‘Dowager Empress’ title with Cixi 41–2; seals 42, 43; Cixi’s coup and 42, 44, 45, 47, 50; co-rule with Cixi as Two Dowager Empresses 50–1, 55, 56, 57, 94; willingly plays second fiddle to Cixi 56; death 56, 145–6, 242; Cixi accused of poisoning 242; Little An execution and 85; Emperor Tongzhi and 97–8, 99, 105, 106, 145; retires into harem after wedding of Emperor Tongzhi 102; role after death of Emperor Tongzhi 113, 115, 119
Zheng, Prince 49, 99
Zhennan Pass 138
Zhigang 77, 79, 80–2
Zhili province 82, 92, 95, 209, 262, 263, 276, 308, 329
Zhirui 188, 194–5, 196
Zhou Fu 283
Zou Rong 328–9
Zuo Zongtang, General 130–1
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