Empress Tsysi. The concubine who changed the fate of China 1835-1908. Jun Chan

Empress Tsysi, one of the greatest women ruler in history, for 47 years held the supreme power in her hands as a regent of the three emperors of the Middle Kingdom. During her reign “because of the screen”, many industries were laid for many industries, the first railways and a telegraph message appeared. It was TSISI who canceled painful bodily punishments, forbade the foot to bandage the footsteps, and granted women the right to receive education and work. The Dowager Empress enjoyed the love of her people, the ministers of the Western powers considered her "equal to Catherine the Great in Russia, Elizabeth in England." However, as a result of the slanderous activities of political opponents, Tsysi earned a reputation as an extravagant tyrant and the opponent of modernization. The book of the authoritative historian Zyun Chan, based on the memoirs of contemporaries and undeniable archival data, is not only the most complete biography of TSISI, but also the “acquittal” of the most ambiguous ruler of China.