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Remembering China’s Empress Dowager Ling, a Buddhist who paved the way for future female rulers
Although the empress dowager was expected to rule ... for the exclusive use of the emperor. In my recent book, “The Women Who ...
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Presenting China’s Last Empress Dowager
The photographs of the Empress Dowager Cixi taken by Xunling ... True, she had been the de facto ruler of China since 1881, maneuvering her way out of concubinage by bearing Emperor Xianfeng ...