Professor Yangwen Zhong
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first heard Jul 2026
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Wow.
So when you see boy emperors in Chinese history, something fishy is going on.
The nuance window!
She has been wronged in some ways by historians for generations.
Because she's a woman and because of allegedly the things she did.
If you look in the long run, if she wasn't there, China might have disappeared in 1862.
So you can say that she helped pop up the Qing Dynasty for another four or five decades after the Second Opium War.
That's number one.
Number two, the reform she stepped in to stop, Hundred Days Reform.
If you look from today's perspective, it might be too early.
China might not have been ready for it as a country because if China...
was not ready, it will cause chaos because of the political reforms that the Guangxu emperor wanted.
She also has one saving grace.
As historians have managed to mine further into the archives, we realized that the Guangxu emperor, who wanted all those radical reforms, her nephew emperor, actually was in secret communication with the Japanese.
He met with the four-time Japanese prime minister.
There was recommendation from ranking Chinese intellectuals that Japan should steer China in 1898.
That is something she could not accept.
And that is something that today's Chinese would never accept.
Yes.
So that may redeem her.
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