He is likened to Empress Dowager Cixi, who in 1900 effectively declared war on the Western powers in China, a disastrous move that helped accelerate the collapse of imperial China To many Chinese ...

When Wanrong became the Empress of China, she was already ruling over a ... But on the wedding night, he took one look at his brides and fled the bedroom. It was an ominous start to what became ...

The photographs of the Empress Dowager Cixi taken by Xunling ... “She thought about self-representation, and—out of the norm for Chinese portraiture—she sometimes posed in staged vignettes ...

She quickly became a favourite and, after giving birth to Emperor Xianfeng's only son, was made Noble Consort Yi, second only to the empress. Unusually, she could read and write Chinese and ...

The most desirable bride possessed ... and scribe, the empress promptly employed the girl as her personal secretary. Thus began an extraordinary 27-year relationship between China’s only female ...

Wu accused the Empress Wang of strangling the child (whom ... reinforced by the sexism of the Confucian beliefs followed by official Chinese historians over the centuries.

A total of 1 million fridge magnets featuring intricate details of a delicate empress crown from the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), a treasured piece held in the National Museum of China, have been ...