"Empress Dowager Cixi is a fascinating figure because she represents a contradiction — she wielded immense power in a world that sought to diminish women's authority," says the artist. "Cixi has been ...

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.

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

In the heart of Beijing, the Forbidden City stands as a testament to China's rich imperial past. Now serving as the Palace ...

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.

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

This cultural hybridity enabled the empress dowager to rule directly: On one hand, the Chinese court system rooted in the Han dynasty had long included the position of empress dowager, even though ...

(THE CONVERSATION) 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 ...