This piece originally appeared on asiasociety.org. Jung Chang’s new biography Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013) recounts the remarkable life ...

Empress Longyu's dark blue silk bridal surcoat challenged the Qing dynasty's rigorous patriarchal ... But this surcoat was manufactured at the time Empress Dowager Cixi was in power," said ...

The Apothecary Diaries Season 2 Episode 8, “The Empress Dowager,” sets a new storyline in motion as the Jade Pavilion receives an august guest who comes seeking Maomao’s (Aoi Yûki, Unicorn ...

Empress Dowager Ling was largely unsuccessful in her bid for power. Her rule was short and contested. She was murdered, and her empire was toppled within 13 years of her rule.

Jung Chang, Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China (Jonathan Cape, 2013) Princess Der Ling, Old Buddha (first published 1929; Kessinger Publishing, 2007) ...

In 1903, American artist Katharine Augusta Carl was invited to paint the first-ever portrait of China’s Empress Dowager Cixi, gaining unprecedented access to the imperial palace.

In sixth-century China, a woman known to history as Empress Dowager Ling ruled over an empire called the Northern Wei. Historians do not know her birth name or in what year she was born, but they ...

(THE CONVERSATION) In sixth-century China, a woman known to history as Empress Dowager Ling ruled over an empire called the Northern Wei. Historians do not know her birth name or in what year she ...