But the newly named Empress Dowager ... as the new Qing emperor even though he was only two years old. She was buried in splendour in the Eastern Qing Tombs. Like Wu Zetian, Cixi has long been ...

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.

The mausoleums of Emperor Qianlong, called the Yuling, and Empress Dowager Cixi, called the Dingdongling, have been renovated and are open to visitors. The Qing Dynasty attained its greatest power ...

On October 11, 1900, Li Hongzhang, chief minister of the Qing government, came to Beijing from Tianjin ... in front of the Jingshan Hill were illuminated by such lamps. Empress Dowager Cixi was ...

most notably Dowager Empress Cixi, the second last Empress of China who reigned until just 3 years before the end of the Qing Dynasty. She trusted him right from the beginning of her time in power ...

Best-selling author Jung Chang’s newest work, Empress Dowager Cixi, upends the stereotypes of China’s last Empress, who ruled for nearly five decades until her death in 1908. Instead of a cruel, ...

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 ...