| 1 | Without her the progressive Emperor Kuangshu would certainly have gone on with his reforms. | |
| 2 | Their visits were more relaxed than that of Emperor Guangxu, who slept in one of Pingyao' s banks while fleeing invading European and Japanese troops in 1900. | |
| 3 | From Emperor Tongzhi's to Guangxu's reign in the Qing Dynasty, more opera figurines were produced and the Huishan clay figurine production reached the height of its development. | |
| 4 | The ignorant old woman who ruled for the entire last half of the nineteenth century did more than any other single person to hold back China's progress. | |
| 5 | One old man in Yanshou, Hunan, speaking about his uncle, gave the date of birth as "the seventh year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu". See if you can work that one out off the top of your head. |