Jung Chang's new biography Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013) recounts the remarkable life of China's Empress Cixi (1835-1908), who ruled China ...

When Xianfeng died in 1861, Cixi's five-year-old son was his only male heir and became the emperor Tongzhi, making her the "empress dowager" and a regent ruler. Cixi relinquished the regency when ...

Carl, With the Empress Dowager (first published 1906; General Books LLC, 2009) Jung Chang, Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China (Jonathan Cape, 2013) Princess Der Ling ...

Japan's Dowager Empress Nagako, the widow of Emperor Hirohito, is dead at the age of 97. She died Friday after suffering breathing problems for two days. The announcement of her death Friday ...

SBS’s “The Last Empress” has unveiled new stills of Shin Eun Kyung in her role as empress dowager! “The Last Empress” is a new Wednesday-Thursday drama set in an alternate universe in ...

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Empress Dowager Cixi strikes a pose Photo courtesy of the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Empress Dowager Cixi is known historically as one of the most powerful women in the world.