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

After premiering in the United Kingdom in 2010 and in the United States in 2011, Downton Abbey quickly permeated the cultural ...

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

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

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

Downton Abbey actor Jim Carter has said the cast of the hit ITV series was lucky to have worked so closely with Dame Maggie ...

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

Meredith Goldstein, host of Love Letters, raises questions based on relationships in the show. Who is “right” for us? How important is love?

Explore the upstairs/downstairs world of the Gilded Age this March at Staatsburgh State Historic Site. These tours are for ...

The New Broadway Musical at the New Vida Center through March 8th as part of their commitment to family-oriented ...

Arsenic has popped up at least in theory before in The Apothecary Diaries, as a potential source of Lady Lihua's poisoning back in season one. But now it seems more likely to be at play in the story ...