Why was almost every Empress Dowager in Chinese history, with

>>2885384
Fucking chinks man

>>2885384
Fucking chinks man

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>>2885794
Fucking, chinks man.

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>>2885831

他媽的叮噹的人

Chinks man, fuck

FUCKING CHINKS MAN
BBRRRAAAAAAAPP

>>2885384
Manly chinks, fuck
>>2885384
>Why was almost every Empress Dowager in Chinese history, with very few exceptions, a cruel and disastrous megalomaniac? Pic related is probably one of the least bad and that's saying something.

>>2885384
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>>2885862
Fucking chinks man

>>2885384
*insert misogynistic rant here*
Also heathen chinks being heathen chinks.

I don't know much about Chinese sources so it's a shot in the dark, but it's feasible it's just sources shit-talking because they presume women to be incompetent and self interest. They might not get the benefit of the doubt, sort of the same way Roman sources always shit-talk stepmothers.

>>2885883
This is probably the best answer.

Almost everything we know about Dowager Cixi and her supposedly cruel actions is from hostile sources who benefited from portraying her as an insane, cruel tyrant.

Because women were prevented from exercising power, the women who did achieve power were necessarily those who were brutal and ruthless.

>>2885883
but women ARE incompetent and self-interested...

>>2885931
Outside of those hostile sources though, we don't get a very positive picture either.

>Reversed all attempts at reforms
>Supported the Boxers
>May have poisoned her nephew

>>2886085
this

>>2885384
The vaginal jew

>>2885384
Combine the natural barbarity of orientals with the natural craziness of women and you shouldn't be surprised by the results.

>>2886776
>natural barbarity of orientals
>performs swedish drink
>barbeques jews
>nuthin personal yellow man

>>2886779
>performs lingchi
>boils dogs alive
>eats the population of a city in a seige
but you whiteys did bad things too so it doesn't count wwwwwww

>>2886085
So are men, in fact that describes most people

>>2885384
Because women are women. Theyre dumb, ignorant, arrogant, and overall power hungry.

>t. Im married

>>2886266
>Reversed all attempts at reforms
>Supported the Boxers
Why was that bad?

>May have poisoned her nephew
Boo fucking hoo, even if true.

>>2885384
Confucianism doesn't like women being in power, so those recording history have a vested interest in trying to focus on all the bad parts of empress dowagers instead of the good parts.
That said Cixi was definitely a grade A cunt.

>>2886802
Stuff like that was pretty much an average month in Piefaceland.

>>2886872
>Reversed all attempts at reforms
>Supported the Boxers
>Why was that bad?
because it led to the chinese getting absolutely wreckt for a century and a half by literally everyone.

>>2886776
Yeah but the natural barbarity of Europeans with the natural craziness of a man we did pretty well

>>2886802
>>boils dogs alive
Perhaps he's wondering why you would boil a dog, before skinning it and carving up its meat?

>>2886802
You're going to compare eating dogs to genocides on three continents and say asians are worse lol.

>>2887141
Why is it that 6 of the 10 most deadly wars in human history in terms of civilian casualties happened in East Asia?

>>2887155
Gooks keep their troubles in their own backyard

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>>2887155
Close. 6 of the top 11 deadliest wars in human history happened in China, and out of those 5 were Chinese civil wars.

>>2885384
Because of confusianism, the son must respect her parents, this gave the empress dowager more power than the king.

https://youtu.be/4AHH0bdNKyM

>>2887971
lmao

>>2887963

Confucianism is quite particular about the child obeying their parent of the same gender. The son doesn't have nearly the same obligation to the mother as the father.

Can someone help me understand something about this board?

Do a anons really recognize some wealthy Asian woman from 200 years ago like this? Do you image search it?
I see it all the time, a pic is posted and its just some renaissance painting of an aristocrat in a big hat and somehow every one seems to know who it is.
Please explain

>>2889121
It may be hard to believe, but many of us have more useless historical knowledge tucked away than you could possiblyimagine

>>2889121
Her name is in the image file name..

>>2889121
I can do it with some Europeans, certainly someone can do it with Asians.

>>2887213
The Chinese population has always been huge so any war there is almost always bloody.

>>2885384
Dowager empresses aren't part of the line of succession. Even when they get to be regents, it's almost invariably as guardian of their son's rights and with an actual minister handling all the actual work. For an empress to actually hold real power, she has to basically coup the state and impose herself through backroom politicking. That kinda limits your character types to cruel megalomaniacs by itself.
Insofar as being disastrous, well old people with little life experience (hard to come by closed off in a mansion from birth to death) don't generally make for effective rulers.

>>2889121
>Can someone help me understand something about this board?
>Do a anons really recognize some random sportsman from the 80s like this? Do you image search it?
>I see it all the time, a pic is posted and its just some black and white photo of an a nigger in short shorts and somehow every one seems to know who it is.
You do realize that you just said the /his/ equivalent of this, right?

Also:
>every one
Not everyone dummy. Only people interested in the subject of the thread.
It's not like everyone here recognizea every painting, but obviously one would recognize depictions of the more relevant historical figures of the periods one's interested in.

>>2889121
History has always been one of my main hobbies and now what I'm studying. I read about it a lot, talk about it a lot, listen to stuff about it a lot. If I can't tell who a person is, I can generally tell where and when that person is from from cues like clothing style/uniform or the style of painting/sculpture/photography, and from there extrapolate, search on my own. In European and East Asian History, at least. And yeah, if I really can't tell I just reverse image search, and it becomes a good opportunity to learn completely new things.

But Empress Cixi is pretty famous, anon. I think most people with any interest in History would be able to recognize her.

>>2889121
Yes but I also don't talk to women, I've never had sex and will almost certainly never spread my genetics. It's give and take.