The Guangxu Emperor (14 August 1871 — 14 November 1908), born Aisin Gioro Zaitian, was the eleventh and penultimate emperor of the Qing Dynasty of China. Although he reigned from 1875 to 1908, most of the governance was done by Empress Dowager Cixi and her reactionaries. The Guangxu Emperor was given some power from 1889 to 1898, during which he and his reformers tried to implement what became known as the Hundred Days' Reform. At that point the Empress Dowager took over the government again and the emperor spent the rest of his reign in house arrest. The Guangxu Emperor is one of the more popular Qing emperors in China, with Republicans praising his attempts at reform and even communist historians being less inclined to criticize him. His name ("Guangxu") means "glorious succession."
