It's not difficult to see why: "She was the last powerful figure in that whole dynastic reign," Hogge says. Sponsor Message The exhibit at the Freer is called "Power Play: China's Empress Dowager." ...

At the center of that nascent trade relationship in the late 1700s was a ship called the Empress of China, which set sail on the maiden US voyage to China from New York Harbor in 1784, not long ...