Empress Wu Zetian entered the Chinese court as a fifth-tier concubine, but she ended her life as the country's only female ...

When she was just 11 years old, the current Emperor of China, Puyi, began looking for a bride. From there, her fate was ...

But the most captivating aspect of his long career in China was the trust he built up with senior imperial figures, most notably Dowager Empress Cixi, the second last Empress of China who reigned ...

Only one woman has ever sat on China’s throne as Emperor in her own ... she killed her own newborn child – and then framed the Empress for the murder. Wu Zetian (624-705) of the Tang dynasty ...

She then issued imperial edicts "from behind the curtains" that she and Dowager Empress Cian would rule China jointly until her son, Tongzhi, was of age. She began overhauling the country's ...

The Last Empress,' a pioneering original musical, celebrates 2 million attendees In 1982, Korean producer Yun Ho-jin traveled to the UK to study theater, and there he saw the musical "Cats." The ...