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

Empress Dowager Anshi's act of switching her baby with Jinshi in The Apothecary Diaries is very much valid considering her ...

Maomao’s reputation for resolving conflicts reaches the empress dowager, who will ask her to help unravel a mystery that ...

The previous Emperor was despicable, but the real villains were the nobles who sent their young girls like the Empress ...

The Apothecary Diaries Season 2 Episode 8 sees a new case laid out before Maomao, this one coming from the Empress Dowager herself. The post REVIEW: ‘The Apothecary Diaries’ Episode 32 — “The Empress ...

The Diplomat’s Justin McDonnell spoke with author Jung Chang about her latest book, Empress Dowager Cixi, a biography of the “most important woman in Chinese history.

Toward the end of the Qing Dynasty, Empress Dowager Cixi arrogated all powers onto herself. This period, called the Guangxu Xuantong Reign, was China's darkest and most corrupt political period.

In ‘The Empress Dowager,’ Maomao is sent to the storage shed by Hongniang for startling Yinghua with a lizard’s tail, but she ...

Han Hsiang Li's lush epic re-creates the fascinating life and times of Tzu Hsi, the Manchu Qing dynasty empress who rose from the ranks of Emperor Xianfeng's many concubines to become the de facto ...

This dragon lady of the Ching Dynasty was the power behind the throne for 50 years, and hew vast tapestry of palace intrigues is vividly brought to the screen in this memorable epic.

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 ...

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