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

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

Even though the Empress Dowager Ling’s rule was problematic and short — resulting in her assassination — she laid the foundation for other, more successful female rulers across medieval East Asia.

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

In Montenegro and the wider Balkan region, there is a growing curiosity about international cultures, including China's.

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

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 ...

The Empress Dowager’s fate was sealed the moment she was deemed suitable for the palace. And she was not the only one—Lishu, too, was sent at the age of nine; it seems that the younger the girls they ...

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 ...

Titled ‘The Late Emperor,’ The Apothecary Diaries Season 2 Episode 9 will premiere on March 7, 2025, at 11:40 pm JST in Japan. This release time is specific to Japan and may differ ...

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.

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 ...