Portrait of the Qing Dynasty Cixi, Imperial Dowager Empress of China in the 1900s

A cunning survivor, Dowager Empress Cixi squandered public funds to maintain a most luxurious life. First persecuting the Boxers, she later encouraged their bloody Rebellion and won the Boxer's support. Her actions began the downfall of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and its last Emperor PuYi, leading to the Chinese Republic in 1911. (The image is in the public domain, because its copyright has expired.)

#124 Teaching at Taizhou Teachers College, China (Qingdao, China's German City)

May 23rd 2010
Qingdao is a smaller seaside city of 2 Million inhabitants on the N.E. sea-coast of Shandong Province, China. At the end of the 19th Century, an ambitious Germany was looking for a place in China to continue its colonial expansion. That moment arrived, when the Chinese Boxer Rebels killed two German Catholic priests in 1897. German troops were sent in to establish their presence in Qingdao, and ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more

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