In sixth-century China, a woman known to history as Empress Dowager Ling ruled over an empire called the Northern Wei.

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 ...

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 ...