#GiacomoPuccini died #OnThisDay in 1924 while Empress Dowager #Cixi #慈禧太后 was born on the same day in 1835; Puccini's last & greatest #opera was set in a mythical #China; here's a complete production:
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#Cixi ruled #China for nearly half a century until her death #OnThisDay in 1908. Jung Chang's biography challenges the image of #CíxǐTàihòu #慈禧太后 as a reactionary & casts the dowager empress as a reformer who tried to modernize the country...
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The Vigoz — A Three-Wheeled Capsule That Lets You Bike to Work While Driving 70+ MPH
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#Vigoz #Cixi #PERS #PedalElectric #Velomobile #Chainless #ThreeWheeler #MicroMobility #EVInnovation #TiltingVehicle #PedalPower #FutureOfCommuting
Electric Trike Reaches 75 mph Using Pedal‑Powered Boost
French firm Cixi unveiled the Vigoz, a three‑wheel electric trike that reaches up to 75 mph (120 km/h) and houses a 22 kWh battery promising about 100 miles of range, with pedal‑assist and regenerative braking. getnews.me/electric-trike-reaches-7... #cixi #vigoz
#Cixi seized power for the second time #OnThisDay in 1898, pushing aside the Guangxu emperor & reasserting control over the tottering #Qing regime in order to save #China from #Japan; she was far from the reactionary old Dragon Lady that she's been depicted as...
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#China was forced to agree to the Boxer Protocol's enormous reparations to the US, Japan & eight European countries #OnThisDay in 1901; the dowager empress #Cixi was widely but somewhat unfairly blamed for the #BoxerRebellion that swept the country in 1900...
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a lavish yet severe portrait of Empress Dowager Cixi constructed from torn court edicts, dragon robe patterns, Qing dynasty paintings, newspaper clippings on the Boxer Rebellion, opium trade charts, and lacquered fan fragments, her face layered from delicate silk textures and jade carvings, background woven with burning palaces, foreign treaties, and broken porcelain, colors rich with red, gold, and ink-black contrasts, symbolic cut-and-paste collage with imperial elegance and ruthless control
Empress Dowager Cixi: Silk, Smoke, and Iron Rule
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#aiart #blueskyart #digitalart #aicommunity #collageart #cixi #qingdynastyart #cutandpasteaesthetic #symbolicportrait #recycledmedia #conceptualcollage #historicaltruth #foundmediaart #imperialchina #powerandsecrecy #monarchscrutiny
#OnThisDay in 1900, #Cixi ordered the foreign legations out of Beijing in the midst of the #BoxerRebellion that convulsed #Qing #China; the day before, the empress dowager had told the Grand Council, "If we must perish, why don't we fight to the death?"
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18 June 1900: Empress Dowager #Cixi ordered that all foreigners in #China should be killed in support of the Boxer Rebellion. #History
Things didn't turn out as she expected.
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#Cixi ruled #China for nearly half a century until her death #OnThisDay in 1908. Jung Chang's biography challenges the image of #CíxǐTàihòu #慈禧太后 as a reactionary & casts the dowager empress as a Chinese nationalist & reformer who tried to modernize the country...
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"Le Dernie Empereur"
"The Last Emperor"
"The Last Emperor"
#TheLastEmperor premiered in Tokyo #OnThisDay in 1987. #BernardoBertolucci's #film won all nine #AcademyAwards it was nominated for, including best film; here's the scene in which the dowager empress #Cixi names #PuYi emperor:
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On #ThisDayInHistory in 1898, the Dowager Empress #Cixi staged a coup in China that ended the transformative policies of the #HundredDaysReform. Her #TongzhiRestoration was partly reactionary and limited the scope for change to areas like the military. The #Qing fell in 1911.
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#Cixi seized power for the second time #OnThisDay in 1898, pushing aside the Guangxu emperor & reasserting control in order to save #China from #Japan; far from the corrupt & reactionary old Dragon Lady that she's been depicted as, the was a Chinese nationalist...
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Boxer Rebellion
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#China was forced to agree to the Boxer Protocol's enormous reparations to the US, Japan & 8 European countries #OnThisDay in 1901; the dowager empress #Cixi was unfairly blamed for the #BoxerRebellion that swept the country in 1900 & that she was powerless to stop:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_P...
Boxer Rebellion
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Boxer Rebellion
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#OnThisDay in 1900, the Zongli Yamen tried but failed to persuade the foreign legations to leave Beijing as the #BoxerRebellion came to a violent climax despite efforts by Empress Dowager #Cixi to preserve the tottering Qing régime...
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