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慈禧（The Empress） The Empress Positive evaluation: Queen Ci Xi is the imperial era Chinese long ruling minority women, politics is smart and capable, especially good at manipulating the balance of power between qingui courtiers, to maintain the absolute authority of the Qing dynasty. Queen Ci Xi in Qing period, the centralization of power and Chinese sovereignty faces from internal and foreign threats, she embarks from the Qing imperial authority and defend the position of power, as it does not move as much as successful, but in the historical context do most can be called a fair argument, reasonable. For since the Opium War, the Western powers from the challenge, and the suppression of the Taiping rebels and other folk, Queen Ci Xi and Zhang Zhidong can reuse Li Hongzhang Chen, started the Westernization Movement in the local area, is the development of modern industry began to Chinese. In support of the achievement of self strengthening movement, the Qing government to reduce internal forces against Chinese, maintain relatively stable situation in the imperial system, and the modernization of the army and Navy arms, creating Tongzhi weather. After the year of a catastrophe, Queen Ci Xi has not been aware of the situation she insisted on imperial tradition, the so-called Zuzongchengfa, but the promotion of a variety of new measures to allow. After the new deal involving the boxer fold, Yingying big change, including: the official generation of imperial examination in modern education, and even constitutional preparations. Social reform, notably: the abolition of the marriage ban, ban on womens foot etc.. Summing up the Ci Xi Administration for 48 years, the government is quite strict, even in the case of illness. She ruled in China nearly half a century, has been struggling to maintain and firmly in control of a centralized empire of the situation, China from falling into chaos due to separatist. In addition, the Empress Dowager Ci Xi family in addition to the passag