The empress dowager's food expense was 60 taels ... that took 10 people all day to prepare. Every year Cixi spent the summer at the Summer Palace, the Three Lakes area (now Beihai Park and the ...

But the newly named Empress Dowager Cixi quickly ousted them on fabricated charges of incompetence. She then issued imperial edicts "from behind the curtains" that she and Dowager Empress Cian ...

That was Empress Dowager Cixi’s life story; the woman who ruled China in the 19th century and arguably the most important Chinese woman in history. Born in 1835, Cixi was brought in as a ...

A few hours earlier, Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu rushed out of the palace. They left the city from Deshengmen and fled to Xi'an. The structure in the distance marked with an arrow is ...