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 ...

Seeking to consolidate her grip on the Chinese throne, Empress Wu Zetian embarked on an audacious project: expanding the imperial palace on a scale never before seen in China, or the world.

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 ... Loyal Companion for Years New study discovers a human body part evolved from fish Cricket: Devon Conway 'retired out ...

Chinese Empress Wu Zetian: European queens like Catherine the Great and Queen Elizabeth I are often celebrated for their might, but here is a queen whose name often finds a miss. Known for her ...

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 ...

Wu accused the Empress Wang of strangling the child (whom ... She then - allegedly - had her rival's hands and feet amputated, and her body thrown into a vat of wine to drown.

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 do ...

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 ...