A lavish robe made for an empress will go on show alongside a working man’s humble straw cape in a landmark new exhibition about 19th century China at the British Museum. About 300 experts from ...

Given such a shift in mainstream aesthetics, it came as a surprise to the Chinese public when a highly anticipated period TV drama, “The Empress of China,” also known as the “Legend of Wu ...

BEIJING -- At the end of December, a popular television series chronicling China's most famous empress suddenly went on a four-day hiatus. When it returned on New Year's Day, the low-cut necklines ...

On Wednesday, the Empress of China, affixed on the top two floors of a building in the heart of Chinatown and the last fine Chinese dining restaurant and banquet hall of its kind in the ...

Empress Dowager Cixi (second from left) ruled China for much of the second half ... to check whether they were hiding extravagant clothes against his orders. As part of a determined drive to ...

Pearl S. Buck, Imperial Woman: The Story of the Last Empress of China (first published 1956; Open Road Media, 2013) Katharine A. Carl, With the Empress Dowager (first published 1906; General Books ...