So here's yet another book to prove it ... albeit in historical novel form -- reclaiming the eponymous empress of 19th century China with a double-volume revisionist account of her much-maligned ...

EMPRESS DOWAGER CIXI ... Swans,” a 1992 best-seller recording the lives of her family in Communist China. Her new book takes on the turbulence of late-19th-century China, tracing competing ...

HOUSTON, November 17, 2013 — The Empress Dowager Cixi has been ... According to Chang, Cixi sought to transform China into a constitutional monarchy, an effort cut short by her death in 1908 at age 72 ...

Min’s ability to evoke the woman who presided over China’s decline a century ago is considerably more limited. “Empress Orchid ... Author at book fair Anchee Min will be at the Chicago ...

Jung Chang's previous books include Wild Swans (1991), a family history ... This is where, on the tenth day of the tenth lunar month in 1835, the future Empress Dowager of China, Cixi, was born. The ...

Dalrymple's book brings out how Wu Zetian rose from being a fifth-grade concubine to China's only empress, using Tantric Buddhism to consolidate power. In Wu's story is also how Buddhism became ...

Although the empress dowager was expected to rule ... for the exclusive use of the emperor. In my recent book, “The Women Who ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the woman who arrived at the Chinese court as a concubine only to become its most powerful figure for the final 50 years of Qing imperial rule. Show more Melvyn ...

Archaeologists in China found the ruins of a building complex with jade books, statues and other artifacts ... the emperor and empress of China graced the halls of a riverside temple for ritual ...