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 new exhibit at the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., features photos of Cixi, a teenage concubine turned empress who ruled China for 43... Powerful Portraits Capture China's Empress Dowager ...

A STRUGGLING mass of humanity was crowding out of the northeast gate of the Forbidden City. Order, etiquette, ceremony, — none of these amenities of life, customary to the existence of the Son of ...

SBS’s “The Last Empress” has revealed some fateful turning points that are amping up anticipation for the coming episodes. Lee Hyuk fooled the Empress Dowager by making it seem as if Oh Sunny and Chun ...

Japan's Imperial Household Agency on Thursday released the official biography of the wife of Emperor Hirohito, posthumously ...

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