This personpublicly backed the Boxer Uprising.
A 2008 report confirmed what historians had long suspected: that this person had ordered the poisoning ofa ruler who died a day before this person's own death. This ruler once shared power with a former colleagueand the Prince of Gong in a government based in the Zongli Yamen. This ruler siphoned large amountsfrom the naval construction fund to expand the (*) Summer Palace. The traditional civil service examinationswere stopped under this person's orders. Ronglu, a general loyal to this ruler led forces that forced Kang Youweiinto exile and placed the Guangxu Emperor under house arrest to end of the Hundred Days' Reform. This personpublicly backed the Boxer Uprising. For 10 points, name this woman who had de facto control of China for half acentury through her position as Empress Dowager during the late Qing dynasty.
A 2008 report confirmed what historians had long suspected: that this person had ordered the poisoning ofa ruler who died a day before this person's own death.
Empress Dowager Cixi [or Empress Dowager Tzu-hsi; or Cixi Taihou; Tzu-hsi T'ai-hou; or The Current Divine Mother Empress Dowager Xiao-Qin Ci-Xi Duan-You Kang-Yi Zhao-Yu Zhuang-Cheng Shou-Gong Qin-Xian Chong-Xi Pei-Tian Xing-Sheng Xian of the Great Qing Empire; or Empress Xiao-Qin Xian; or really any Chinese answer with Cixi]