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 ...

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 ...

The most recent is 'Empress of China', which released in 2015 and had ... She loved reading books and at the age of 14, started working as a secretary of Emperor Taizong in the palace in Tang ...

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 ...