Flowering dogwood trees are hallmarks of Southern landscaping. One of our favorites is the Empress of China dogwood. It is an ...

Wu Zetian was the first, but it took 1,200 years for ... edicts "from behind the curtains" that she and Dowager Empress Cian would rule China jointly until her son, Tongzhi, was of age.

Wu accused the Empress Wang of strangling the child (whom ... reinforced by the sexism of the Confucian beliefs followed by official Chinese historians over the centuries.

Six elderly imperial family members, including Naruhito’s parents, Emperor Emeritus Akihito, 87, and Empress Emerita Michiko 86, received their first vaccinations on June 1.