Toward the end of the Qing Dynasty, Empress Dowager Cixi arrogated all powers onto herself. This period, called the Guangxu Xuantong Reign, was China's darkest and most corrupt political period.

That was Empress Dowager Cixi’s life story; the woman who ruled China in the 19th century and arguably the most important Chinese woman in history. Born in 1835, Cixi was brought in as a ...

Best-selling author Jung Chang’s newest work, Empress Dowager Cixi, upends the stereotypes of China’s last Empress, who ruled for nearly five decades until her death in 1908. Instead of a cruel, ...

But the newly named Empress Dowager Cixi quickly ousted them on fabricated charges of incompetence. She then issued imperial edicts "from behind the curtains" that she and Dowager Empress Cian ...

The foundation of Long'en Palace of Empress Dowager Ci Xi was dug more than four meters deep, and 685 cypress stakes and 8,881 pegs were driven into the ground with earth packed tight around them.

In contrast, a more recent and equally dramatized portrayal of the Pekingese breed can be found in a long-form poem titled "Pearls Dropped from the Lips of Her Imperial Majesty Tzu-Hsi Dowager Empress ...

The first stamp was created in Great Britain on May 1, 1840. It wouldn't take long for people to start collecting them. Just ...

This dragon lady of the Ching Dynasty was the power behind the throne for 50 years, and hew vast tapestry of palace intrigues is vividly brought to the screen in this memorable epic.

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Min's Empress Orchid tracked the concubine Orchid's path to becoming Empress Dowager Tzu Hsi; this revisionist look at her long years behind her son Tung Chih's throne (1863–1908) won't ...

The story of Anna Anderson (Amy Irving), the woman who claimed to be the sole survivor of the 1918 assassination of Russia's czar and his family. Cyril: Rex Harrison. Dowager Empress: Olivia de ...

She ruled as empress consort, empress dowager (a widow who inherited a title from her late husband) and officially as empress regnant from 690–705. She was the only officially recognized empress ...