#empress dowager cixi

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Empress Dowager Cixi: One of the central characters of the show. Apparently it's seen as a relatively sympathetic portrayal of her, but she does come across as a villainous figure especially in her power struggle with her nephew the Guangxu Emperor and the Hundred Days Reform

Penelope Akk: she never actually meant to become a villain at all! She fought a sidekick that was a jerk and got branded as a villain alongside her teammates ray viles and Claire lutra, they became the inscrutable machine; Bad Penny, Reviled, & EClaire. They tried to turn good but ended up being so good at being villains they decided to roll with it as none of the adult superheroes could take them down. Bad Penny is a mad scientist whose inventions are ridiculously powerful and she barely understands her powers herself but she is one of the best mad scientists ever seen in their universe surpassing Tesla and Einstein in most impressive inventions created on their scale of measurement

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Empress Dowager Cixi with her lady-in-waiting, Yü Der Ling (also known as Princess Der Ling) and a enuch during a snowy day

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Empress Dowager Cixi (29 November 1835 – 15 November 1908), of the Manchu Yehe Nara clan, was a Chinese noblewoman, concubine and later regent who effectively controlled the Chinese government in the late Qing dynasty for 47 years, from 1861 until her death in 1908. Selected as a concubine of the Xianfeng Emperor in her adolescence, she gave birth to a son, Zaichun, in 1856. After the Xianfeng Emperor's death in 1861, the young boy became the Tongzhi Emperor, and she assumed the role of co-empress dowager, alongside the Emperor's widow, Empress Dowager Ci'an. Cixi ousted a group of regents appointed by the late emperor and assumed the regency along with Ci'an, who later died. Cixi then consolidated control over the dynasty when she installed her nephew as the Guangxu Emperor at the death of her son, the Tongzhi Emperor, in 1875. This was contrary to the traditional rules of succession of the Qing dynasty that had ruled China since 1644.

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Hey Guangxu why are you calling the Empress Dowager "Daddy"?

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Empress Dowager Cixi

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The origins of the Penn Museum's crystal ball, both the location where the crystal was mined, and the place where the sphere was polished, are unknown. It was purchased in 1927 from The Far East Shop, a fine arts division specializing in objects made of special gems inside the Wanamaker's department store in Philadelphia. It was given as a gift to the Penn Museum in memory of George Byron Gordon, the director of the museum at the time, who had recently passed away. It came with the name "Dowager Empress" attached to it, named after the Empress Dowager Cixi who ruled over China's last Dynasty. However, no evidence has ever come to light that connects the sphere with the Empress, or any other account of the sphere's origins. The silver stand, in the shape of a wave, was made in Japan, and may have been made to order after the sphere was purchased.

It is the fourth largest crystal sphere in the world, with a diameter of 25.4 cm, and weighing 49 lbs. Two spheres in the Smithsonian (32.7 cm) and (27.6 cm) and the Crow Collection in Dallas (28.9 cm) are larger.

The sphere is not made of glass, but rather from a naturally-occurring crystal of pure quartz, and was shaped into a sphere through years of constant turning in a semi-cylindrical container filled with abrasive powders and water.

▪︎ Crystal Ball.

Place of origin: China

Period: Qing Dynasty

Date: 19th century

Medium: Rock Crystal

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Note: Character does not have to be the main protagonist, just a protagonist. Can be any kind of villain, including (but not limited to): just straight up evil, former and "because the narrative says so" villains.

Submissions for this tournament are still open, I'm just getting as many prelims out of the way as I can before they close.

Propaganda: One of the central characters of the show. Apparently it's seen as a relatively sympathetic portrayal of her, but she does come across as a villainous figure especially in her power struggle with her nephew the Guangxu Emperor and the Hundred Days Reform

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The photographs of the Empress Dowager Cixi taken by Xunling are more Western than Eastern in style. Freer and Sackler Galleries, SI

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A SILK PORTRAIT FROM ALAN KENNEDY

A rare portrait on silk was acquired by a museum from Alan Kennedy during Asia Week New York in 2016. This painting will soon be exhibited in a major exhibition entitled, “Empresses of China's Forbidden City.” The exhibition opens at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts on August 18th, and will travel to the Freer/Sackler Museum in Washington, DC.

The painting depicts the Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908) in the guise of Guanyin, the Buddhist bodhisattva sometimes referred to as the Goddess of Mercy. It was painted by a court artist in the Forbidden City, and was created at the request of an American missionary named Reverend Issac Taylor Headland. His wife was a physician who treated several of the women in Cixi's entourage.

One of the unique aspects of the portrait is that it depicts the face of the Empress Dowager in a realistic manner, without hiding the effects of age. Other paintings of her show Cixi in a more idealized manner, looking younger than her actual years. The Empress Dowager would not have been pleased if she had seen this portrait.The painting was reproduced in a book by Reverend Headland (Court Life in China, 1909), and he described the unusual circumstances behind the making of the painting. The portrait remained in the possession of his descendants until recent times, and will now be seen by the many visitors to the upcoming museum exhibitions.

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Hey Guangxu why are you calling the Empress Dowager "Daddy"?