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Kang Youwei (Chinese: 康有為; Cantonese: Hōng Yáuh-wàih; 19 March 1858 – 31 March 1927) was a political thinker and reformer in China of the late Qing dynasty. His increasing closeness to and influence over the young Guangxu Emperor sparked conflict between the emperor and his adoptive mother, the regent Empress Dowager Cixi .
Kang's husband was Luo Chang, a young staffer at the Chinese embassy in Tokyo, Japan. There is no indication of the match having been arranged by their respective families, as was usually the case among upper-class Chinese at the time. Tongbi followed her husband when the latter was assigned to the Chinese consulate in Denmark, and
Empress Dowager Cixi (Mandarin pronunciation: [tsʰɹ̩̌.ɕì]; 29 November 1835 – 15 November 1908) was a Manchu noblewoman of the Yehe Nara clan who effectively but periodically controlled the Chinese government in the late Qing dynasty as empress dowager and regent for almost 50 years, from 1861 until her death in 1908.
The sumptuously mounted film contains enough high-mindedness and hidden meaning (often conveyed through music and flowers) for art-house audiences to pick over, and enough story contextualize the ...
The wedding of the Guangxu Emperor and Empress Xiaodingjing The wedding of the Guangxu Emperor and Empress Xiaodingjing. The Guangxu Emperor had one empress and two consorts in total. The emperor was forced by Empress Dowager Cixi to marry her niece (his cousin) Jingfen, who was two years his senior. Jingfen's father, Guixiang (Cixi's younger ...
Kang Keqing (1911–1992), politician, wife of Zhu De; Kang Laiyi (1936–2019), epidemiologist; Kang Hui (born 1972), news anchor; Kang Ching-jung (康晋榮), or commonly known as Kang Kang (康康), is a Taiwanese entertainer and singer; Kang Jingwei (康敬伟, Jeffrey Kang, born 1970), Chinese billionaire entrepreneur, founder and CEO of ...
The long lost daughter of Governor Lord Aibida who grew up carefree. Beautiful and charming with an air of naivety, she is gifted to the Qianlong Emperor and becomes the most favoured consort after Yingluo. She gains the trust of Yingluo and alienates her from the Emperor and Empress Dowager.
She ultimately falls in love with Su Peisheng and becomes his wife. Zhan Jingyi Liuzhu (流朱) Zhen Huan's dowry maid. Luo Kang Xiao Yunzi (小允子) Zhen Huan's head eunuch. Zhai Beibei Pei'er (佩儿) Zhen Huan's maid who later serves Concubine Xin, but remains loyal to her former mistress. Zhao Hailong Kang Luhai (康禄海)