Tan Sitong = Tan Si Tong

Despite centering around the heroic personality of the eponymous Qing Dynasty official Tan Sitong (1865—1898), the film is actually an examination of the events and internal pressures that indirectly led to the fall of the Qing Dynasty. In her waning years, the Empress Dowager Ci Xi was still the one pulling the strings to the incumbent puppet Emperor Guangxu.