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that can allow and welcome to the Balkans and hardly fine, and I am Tracy Wilson, and today we are talking about an area of history that super love, the averages, any chinese history. I really love it. It's a rich, rich tapestry It's been going on for so long and there have been so many interesting dynasties in cultural things that its. I love chinese history gay. I love it So today we are talking about chinese imports Dowager Fiji who have been characterized with a great deal of gossip and speculation, she's off Drivers, pure evil, and her story include some sexual scandals. In point. Scandals and without a doubt she was exceptionally powerful and she actually ruled the king dynasty for more than forty five years, but

all of these characterizations. They kind of come down to archetypes in their not really a full pick. Of a human being, which she was so I thought it would be interesting to examine a little bit her life in some of the things that we do know things than theorized and probably the truth, which is somewhere in the middle right He was born on November, twenty ninth of eighteen, thirty five and she was actually the daughter of a low ranking military officer. Sheep MC concubine for emperor shall funked harem at the age of sixteen, and this was really a great honor. It might sound unplug. To be sent off to to a harem he needs girl. But this was a swank appointment yeah. She was chosen because the unity thought she was beautiful and lovely and had many gifts, rain

alpha was pretty new to being emperor at that point he had rained for less than two years when this happened. Story goes that her beautiful singing voice actually drew the emperor's attention and she quickly became one of his favorites Popularity really paid out with the emperor really paid off in a big way. She bore shall flung his only son prince I tune in eighteen, thirty. Six, and at this point she was given the title of virtuous imperial concubine, which is like third in Rank Sue for anyone that doesn't No about how that works in chinese history, you There were many wives and they each had a ranking order and she was getting promoted based on being. Written in varying son. The next year. She moved up to the second rank and was in the title virtuous, honourable concubine. Meanwhile, while her minnow personal life and child bearing an relationship, but the emperor was going on the second

be a meal was also underway and that easily be its own podcast episode, its very involved, but the cliffs notes version is this. Britain, France, Russia in Amerika, were fighting for diplomatic embassies and access to chinese ports and foreign travel rights in China, so that foreigners could actually travel through the country and they also wanted to legalise the opium trade or other elements. Who There or that they wanted that that those aren't the only things. But those are the primary once in the war, actually ended in eighteen. Sixty with the ratification of the treaty of Tin Syn, convention of Peking in eighteen. Sixty one cell phone fell ill and died at the imperial summer resort where he had gone after fleeing taking during the war So when shelf and dined that left of course,

emperor position open and he had an air He did because relations had borne him. The sun and the sun was only five at the time and he came Emperor Tom G, which made she D, the honoured mother Empress Dowager but surely before he died, long had actually appointed eight ministers to assist the young emperor as as ruler and those ain't ministers were headed up by soon Djibouti, Phoebe had been handling from state affairs for Shall phone. While he was sick was not really interested in handing over this power to anybody else. But this is not really whilst its well substantiated right, I mean we can't know what was really going on in her mind. We don't even know really how much she was or was not handling it's all this

one of those parts of it. The truly kind of based on rumour and speculation of the people around her brain, a lot of what was going on and in the forbidden city, which is not transparent through any one else. Right, they were the emu. The the imperial summer resort at this point, but yet their whole inner workings were very isolated and they kind of projected outward what they wanted, people to see, but the interior. We really dont, know all that much about we do know is that either through an agreement on their part or through an assignment. I have seen it characterised both ways in historical tax should form an alliance with the Empress dowager Chan, who was the one life that out ranked her in This alliance together, gave them more power than if either of them had tried to stand alone that they actually could. Some decisions and hold some

sway in court in in the political decisions. Two of them, United So allied with two of the imperial princes Gong and Chin. So those were brothers of that The emperor and Fiji and the now young emperor, her son proceeded the funeral procession that went back to Beijing. Picking since its change named many times in the western the creation of the city and, the time before the ministers could arrive since they had preceded the procession at that point, colluded with those two princes to charge the regent ministers that shall Fung had appointed in competency in that second opium war, that we talked about just a moment ago, she D imprints Gong penned in accusatory document entitled eight guilt of the regent ministers and, Luckily they just set up this thing that late they were poor advisers. They really allow other countries to walk all over us.

You know they weaken the emperor's position band As a consequence of all this intrigue, all of those regions were dismissed. All of the eight they hung had appointed from his deathbed but three of them are actually executed and another area, where things A little gossipy historical record and speculative. Some people think that she D wanted to make an example out of them. They're saying that she was really involved in that decision, but we do know that they were no longer empower and basically now she d, how the power right this put. The well of empress dowagers in power as regions, but where's dowager Chan didn't really have a lot of interest in political matters, so CD assumed the role of leader and gone was appointed in a position as the emperor's aid and its

trusting that she became so powerful, because women held a lower position, both socially and politically than men. At this point, so Jim was basically running the country from behind a screen. They could literally when people would come to court and they would have discussions. She would be sitting behind a screen listening to everything this should be seen by the people. She was having a direct, powerful image, Don. See ruled as region for twelve years until her son Emperor Tansy turned seventeen and eighteen. Seventy three cd step down as a region to let her son rule on his own, but he died two years later at the age of nineteen officially He had smallpox, but there are lots of rumours that he may have died of a sexually transmitted disease, though as with many of the things that her coming up in this episode- that's never been substantiated. You there issued their official proclamation from the palace, but we don't know

But what we do know is that when Topsy died, she geez few and the son of Prince tune. So it's she does nephew by marriage. Gwen shoe became the emperor, but he was Three years old at the time- and this once again put she d in a position of power, did you she actually adopted Guangzhou as her son is part of this whole like power restructuring for the new emperor there The controversy about how going she became the emperor when Tansy died without an air one of his concubines was pregnant. The concubine died. While the debate about who would be the next emperor was still going on, and so the possible air was never born. So we don't really know of this would have meant a boy or a girl. We don't really know whether The child he wasn't born would have really been the next in line, which means, of course, that

the suspicion that this was possibly murder, yeah and this feeds into some of those stories of Fiji. Being really, you know, an evil, evil woman that she colluded with others to create this. To ensure that her power remained intact and that she actually was in the murder of this woman. Even though the death was announced publicly again, the proclamation from the palace was that it was a suicide She d remains as a historical suspect, but so do the other princes that were involved Johnson, brother still had not. The power when he am pathway, he continued to rule from behind her scream. Even once good new emperor came of age. She still held the reins of power swear, things became, oh contentious

see and am going shoe diverged in their political views about what they want and wanted to do. During the sign or japanese war, going she wanted to engage the enemy, but CV was you know she wanted to compromise and she blocked as efforts so China was defeated, going. She started to recognise and think about the ways that you thought China needed to reform. Yeah and he really realising that the old ways we're not gonna carry the country forward. And so on June, Eleventh eighteen. Ninety eight coins started what is called the hundred days reform, and that was a series of proclamations that he issued that were intended to modernize China and revitalize the dynasty, he wanted to change and of the countries education, their industry, their foreign affairs and all because CV still held power over the loyal military. It was really easy for her to state a coup.

Power over the loyal military Stevie reestablished her role as region cigar, students from other people who did not like the reform plans and she's the emperor to confinement and Yang tie terrorists for ten years, the Publican it's meant was that the emperor was sick to the point of being incapacitated when in fact he had just and shoved off his throne. And so he basically stay there- the rest of his life, which didn, I was told that longer, obviously it was ten years and will but a little bit in the moment bites as This point of the story and these reference reformation efforts have happened. She D starts some missteps during the boxer rebellion of night.

Hundred, which is led by the righteous fists of harmony, but they can get called the boxers in translation sided with the insurgents and she was against foreign diplomats in the chinese Christians. She didn't really want change. She thought that they should protect their page in their history, and there always of doing things- and some historic theorized that this was actually just a play to minimize damage on the Chin dynasty butts. She was trying to you know. Creed is little damage as possible from the rebellion but Really really did nothing for her image on the global stage. Shoes basically saying no foreigners were not interested in you, and so when the coalition troops had stamped out the rebellion, she was really left. The very ugly reputation as being you know and welcoming an stubborn was minded this episode of stuff you missed in history, glasses, brought you buy Norton three sixty with lifelong

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helping her reputation. This was not exactly successful. She was still seen as a dangerous dragon lady by Westerners, and then find, After that, on November, fourteenth in nineteen o eight emperor Goin shoe died at the age of thirty seven. In Paris Dowager. She D died the next day, just shy of the age of seventy four and this, another part of the intrigue at the time there were suspicions that he had been murdered. Then, a hundred years later, in two thousand and five year, research study actually concluded that had examined samples of the emperor's remains. I think seven of his bones or sampled, but the interior and exterior of his tomb garments that he had been wearing, and the analysis revealed that the emperor had actually been poisoned with arsenic, more triple the amount that would have been a fatal dose, and

for a while. There was before this study was finalized. People had suspected that it was one of those things are people sometimes take poison as a medicine, and then it was a cumulative poisoning, but because of the way the the evidence played out. It was obviously like a one huge do situation. It was an acute onset poisoning not accumulated one. Of course. I'm sure you and his reforms to take over China yet said Emma rumour persists, I mean there's. There is actually a story that came on the scene time where some of the people who worked on this house rumour persists, I mean there's, there is actually a story that came around the same time where some of the people that worked on this analysis are pretty confident. She was the one who poisoned him right. There is kind of a trail of possibly mysterious Beth in her wake you earlier and alive you, and there is one accounts that someone mentions of close

of hers who is supposed to be a unique. There is also some rumour that maybe he wasn't really unique and they had a sexual relationship someone saw him carrying food into the emperor right before he died so there. There is some evidence that suggests it. However, we don't know for certain Mary, circumstantial young shooting incredibly powerful and politically strong fortunately her anti foreign conservativism and some pretty bad administrative missteps in her later rain, really really caused problems. For example, she spent naval funds on a summer palace weaken the military and precipitated the defeat in the sign. A japanese war and her mausoleum, which has no prior to her death, is actually filled with precious materials in that exceed most embers tombs. She really lake demand, does. She have only the best things and in

numbers that word just sort of ridiculous at the time be now it's like. I want, I think I I saw a thing that said that most tombs headache three golden pillars and her says something like sixty four, why we really wanted only the best and most immaculate and most amazing. Unfortunately, all of that kind of behaviour particularly her conservatism and unwillingness to kind of open the doors to the rest of the world really were direct contributors to the demise of the team dynasty. There is also an interesting footnote in all of this, which is, The accounts of her. Intrigues in her life have actually as their own sort of story of drama amongst biographers

The accounts were mostly written by George Morrison linguist reporter Edmund Back house. He wrote reports for westerners from taking in the late eighteen hundreds and early nineteen hundreds In the early nineties, ninety sterling Seagrave wrote a biography, Ujiji called the dragon, Lady Anne, in book. He really discredits Morrison and back house. Several sources have shown that back house fabricated, some of his stories and even Morrison's diary mentions that he had discovered that some day, house was writing fake is presumably to further his career, but that, at that point Morrison was so deep in that he would have discredited himself had he blew the whistle sustained interesting I feel I got a story that we continue to hear today, sometimes and people fabricated, Yerevan S and then get published, but there is also a resistance to see graves version of the story because he really paints More sympathetic,

picture of she D and characterizes her as a fearful figurehead, and those issues trapped in impoverished, dynasty and she's, really struggling with everything around her by it. S often is the case. Truth is probably somewhere in the middle, because there are, was like evidence that she misspent naval funds making herself a beautiful summer home and that she, you know insane mausoleum built for herself and Those are not really the things that I would normally associate with a fearful person. Who is very, you know, scared and trapped, though she Hence I am sir. She was a human. She Polly had fears and concerns, but I think someone Venus too, is really where we get through the reality right, plus the trail of buys. I mean that can entirely be coincidence that at the same time, that seems a little unlikely that there was not something there's a lot of death and injury in that story

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