| | | Type | Year Published |
| Peng, Ying-chen | A Palace of Her Own: Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908) and the Reconstruction of the Wanchun Yuan | Journal Article | 2012 |
| Xi-zhu, Li | A Person and an Era - A Brief Discussion on the Merits and Demerits of the Empress Dowager Cixi (in Chinese) | Journal Article | 2014 |
| Carl, Katharine A. | A Personal Estimate of the Character of the Late Empress Dowager, Tze-Hsi | Journal Article | 1913 |
| Anderson, Virginia | 'A Semi-Chinese Picture;' Hubert Vos and Empress Dowager of China | Book Section | 2012 |
| Harris, Richard | China Under the Empress Dowager | Journal Article | 1957 |
| Zhang, Zhan | Cixi and Modernization of China | Journal Article | 2010 |
| Tsang, Jiasun; Madruga, Inês; Williams, Don; Bosworth, Jenifer; Hogge, David | Conservation of an oil portrait of the Empress Dowager Tze Hsi of China | Journal Article | 2014 |
| Grieszler, Margareta | Das letzte dynastische Begängnis: chinesisches Trauerzeremoniell zum Tod der Kaiserinwitwe Cixi: eine Studie | Book | 1991 |
| Seagrave, Sterling; Seagrave, Peggy | Dragon lady: The life and legend of the last empress of China | Book | 1993 |
| Eoyang, Eugene | Echo and Shadow: Images of Women in Traditional China | Journal Article | 1994 |
| Woo, X. L. | Empress Dowager Cixi: China’s Last Dynasty and the Long Reign of a Formidable Concubine | Book | 2002 |
| Chang, Jung | Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China | Book | 2013 |
| Weibin, Shen | Expatiation on Empress Dowager Cixi before and after the First Sino-Japanese War (2) (in Chinese) | Journal Article | 2014 |
| Weibin, Shen | Expatiation on Empress Dowager Cixi before and after the Sino-Japanese Naval Battle in 1894 (1) (in Chinese) | Journal Article | 2014 |
| Doran, Christine | Fantasy as History: The Invention of Cixi, Empress of China | Journal Article | 2002 |
| Yang, Lien-sheng | Female rulers in ancient China | Book Section | 1992 |
| Yang, Lien-sheng | Female Rulers in Imperial China | Journal Article | 1960 |
| Cassel, Pär | Genus och makt vid kejsarhovet - Änkekejsarinnan Cixis plats i den kinesiska historien | Journal Article | 2006 |
| Wang, Cheng-hua | 'Going Public': Portraits of the Empress Dowager Cixi, Circa 1904 | Journal Article | 2012 |
| Xue, Bai-Cheng | Historical Material of Empress Dowager Cixi's Family (in Chinese) | Journal Article | 2014 |
| Kwong, Luke S. K. | Imperial Authority in Crisis: An Interpretation of the Coup D'etat of 1861 | Journal Article | 1983 |
| Pyo, Kyo-yeol | On Empress Dowager Tzu-hsi's Ascent to Power: A Reappraisal of the Coup d'etat of 1861 (Chinese) | Journal Article | 1985 |
| Song, Naicheng | On the Influence of the Ci Xi Empress, Li Hongzhang Personal Factors of War (in Chinese) | Journal Article | 2014 |
| Qin, Wei-xian | On the Multiple Characteristics of the Empress Dowager of the Late Qing Dynasty - A New Atmosphere in Recent Comments on Cixi (in Chinese) | Journal Article | 2008 |
| Yuhang, Li | Oneself as a Female Deity: Representations of Empress Dowager Cixi as Guanyin | Journal Article | 2012 |
| Carl, Katharine | Painting the Empress | Book Section | 2003 |
| Chung, Priscilla Ching | Palace Women in the Northern Sung 960–1126 | Book | 1981 |
| Soulliere, Ellen F. | Reflections on Chinese Despotism and the Power of the Inner Court | Journal Article | 1984 |
| Yuhang, Li; Zurndorfer, Harriet T. | Rethinking Empress Dowager Cixi through the Production of Art | Journal Article | 2012 |
| Xue, Yan-li | Review of Empress Dowager Cixi and Sino-Foreign Cultural Exchanges (in Chinese) | Journal Article | 2014 |
| Peng, Ying-chen | Staging Sovereignty: Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908) and Late Qing Court Art Production | Thesis | 2014 |
| Chen, Liana | The Empress Dowager as Dramaturg: Reinventing Late-Qing Court Theatre | Journal Article | 2012 |
| Aldridge, A. Owen | The empress dowager CI-XI in western fiction: a stereotype for the far east ? | Journal Article | 2001 |
| Aldridge, A. Owen | The Empress Dowager Ci-Xi in Western fiction: a stereotype for the Far East? | Journal Article | 2001 |
| Sergeant, Philip Walsingham | The Great Empress Dowager of China | Book | 1910 |
| Pao Tao, Chia-lin | The Hen Crow in the Morning: Empress Dowager Tz'u-hsi in Politics | Book Section | 2002 |
| Chung, Sue Fawn | The Image of the Dowager Empress Tz'u-Hsi | Book Section | 1976 |
| Tie, Qi | The Imperial Face of China at Turn of the Twentieth Century: An Analysis of Empress Dowager Cixi's Portraits | Thesis | 2010 |
| Grießler, Margareta T.J. | The Last Dynastic Funeral: Ritual sequence at the demise of the Empress Dowager Cixi | Journal Article | 1991 |
| Laidler, Keith | The Last Empress: The She-Dragon of China | Book | 2003 |
| Chung, Sue Fawn | The Much Maligned Empress Dowager: A Revisionist Study of the Empress Dowager Tz'u-hsi (1835-1908) | Journal Article | 1979 |
| Chung, Sue Fawn | The Much Maligned Empress Dowager: a revisionist study of the Empress Dowager Tz'u-hsi in the period 1898 to 1900 | Thesis | 1975 |
| Chan, Henry Y. S. | The Reformer as Conspirator: K'ang Yu-wei versus the Empress Dowager, 1904-1906 | Journal Article | 1992 |
| Dong, Lihui | The Way To Be Modern: Empress Dowager Cixi’s Portraits Of The Late Qing Dynasty | Thesis | 2017 |
| Flowers, James | Treating the emperors in the Qing palace: the tension between the Manchu rulers' public power and private frailty | Thesis | 2009 |
| Tsai, Wen-Hui | Women in Traditional Chinese Politics: The Lives and Careers of Empresses Lu, Wu and Tz'u-Hsi | Journal Article | 1991 |
