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.

That side of Cixi comes to the Western world for the first time with Sunday’s unveiling of “Empress Dowager, Cixi: Selections From the Summer Palace” at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana.

The Empress Dowager has been portrayed many times in film — from Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor (1987), to Nicholas Ray's 55 Days at Peking (1963). And there are many Chinese films as well.

SBS’s “The Last Empress” has unveiled new stills of Shin Eun Kyung in her role as empress dowager! “The Last Empress” is a new Wednesday-Thursday drama set in an alternate universe in ...

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 ...