The Reception Throne Set is shown in the exhibition "Empress Dowager, Cixi." at Orange County ... noted recently that she spent 10 years trying to persuade the Chinese government to lend Cixi’s art.

Empress Dowager Cixi by Katharine A. Carl, 1903 Smithsonian Institution. In 1903, seemingly inexplicably, an American woman painted a 15-foot-tall portrait of China’s Empress Dowager Cixi, the ...

BEIJING — She entered the world of an ancient empire as a teenage concubine, chosen by the emperor to share his bed for her good looks, immaculate comportment and, above all, her ability to sing.

Art World Why a Hit Chinese TV Show About a Vengeful Concubine Is Causing Fans to Swarm the Forbidden City’s Palace Museum. But not every visitor has been a satisfied customer.

Larry Namer's Metan Entertainment readying English-language take on classic 7th Century Chinese "Empress".

The Chinese Museum houses works once belonging to Empress Eugenie Thieves have broken into Fontainebleau palace and stolen 15 Chinese artefacts in a lightning raid, the French culture ministry has ...

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Larry Namer’s Metan Entertainment and Entree Pictures are to produce an English-language movie about 7th century Chinese Empress Wu. The film is an adaptation of the novel “Empress” by Evelyn McCune, ...