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 ...

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.

PEKING, Jan. 7.—The entry of the Emperor and Empress Dowager into Peking to-day was the most remarkable episode in the annals of Kwang-Su's reign, save the fright of the Court when Peking was ...

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.