"Empress Dowager Cixi is a fascinating figure because she represents a contradiction — she wielded immense power in a world ...

Dominique Fung reimagines royal figures from the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911 ... centers around the figure of Empress Dowager Cixi, who was the most powerful figure in China from 1861 to 1908.

The empress, like many other rulers at the time, legitimized her reign through Buddhism, portraying herself either as a ...

In the world of Chinese martial arts, legends often blend skill, wisdom, and extraordinary feats. One such figure is Gong Baotian, a martial arts master whose ability to evade bullets from a distance ...

Grapes symbolize happiness, prosperity and good luck in traditional Chinese culture. As such, patterns of grapes have adorned ...

Zoellick (Zoellick), former US deputy secretary of state, quotes these words of former president Richard Nixon in his book ...

This pair of Qing dynasty tigers (dating circa 1850) are carved in a style characteristic of later Chinese statuary: minimal surface decoration, low-relief carvings of abstracted forms such as ...

A former Japanese diplomat confessed to taking part in the 1895 assassination of Korean Empress Myeongseong ... Japan had imposed the treaty on the Qing Dynasty of China after emerging victorious ...

The show is about Empress Dowager CiXi, of the Manchu Yehenara clan, who ruled China for nearly 50 years right at the end of the Qing dynasty, and just before China stopped being a monarchy.