Empress Dowager (太后)

Overview

The translated histories identify Empress Dowager as a royal family member and ruler. This record brings together 2 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Empress Dowager	太后
Title	Empress Dowager	太后

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Title only
Sex: Uncertain

Roles

Royal Family Member
Ruler

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 光緒十一年 · Western Year: AD 1885
Explicit · qingshigao:438:s0061, qingshigao:438:s0067

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 438Volume 438 Biographies 225: Yan Jingming, Zhang Zhiwan, Lu Chuan Lin, Lin Shaonian · 2 passages

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時上意將修圓明園，而敬銘論治以節用為本，會廷議錢法，失太后旨，因革職留任。 At the time the court intended to restore the Old Summer Palace, while Jingming's governing principle was frugality. When deliberations on currency reform offended the Empress Dowager, he was stripped of rank but kept in his post.

初直樞廷，太后頗信仗之，終以戇直早退雲。 When he first entered the Grand Council the Empress Dowager trusted him greatly, but in the end his blunt integrity led him to retire early.