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Where did the empress dowager and the emperor briefly flee during the Boxer Rebellion?
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Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu were briefly exiled to Xi'an during the Boxer Rebellion. The Boxer Rebellion was a violent anti-foreigner movement in China that took place between 1899 and 1901. The Boxers were a secret society that believed in martial arts and magic, and they were opposed to the presence of foreigners in China.
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