KnowraEmpress Dowager CixiLinked fromLinked fromThe 27 pages that link to Empress Dowager Cixi, each with the reason it gives.All 27Broader topic 1Related 22Compared with 4Kang YouweiCompared with: Her intervention reversed the political opening Kang had secured.Wu ZetianCompared with: Her authority, like Lü’s, remained formally distinct from Wu’s direct claim to emperorship.Emperor of ChinaCompared with: Her political authority shows that influence at court did not always belong to the sovereign.Sophia Alekseyevna of RussiaCompared with: Both exercised power through dynastic legitimacy, though in different political systems and periods.