A viral political cartoon circulating in China shows US President Donald Trump dressed in the imperial robes of the Qing ...

Throughout China's long, male-dominated history ... But the newly named Empress Dowager Cixi quickly ousted them on fabricated charges of incompetence. She then issued imperial edicts "from ...

The photographs of the Empress Dowager Cixi taken by Xunling are more Western ... True, she had been the de facto ruler of China since 1881, maneuvering her way out of concubinage by bearing ...

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.

Soon after the empress dowager declared war on foreign powers in 1900, the Qing dynasty collapsed. Trump's tariffs reflect the same delusion A viral political cartoon circulating in China shows US ...

His wife, Empress Consort Ci'an — who was made co-regent together with Cixi after the emperor's death in 1861 but was for all practical purposes prevailed upon by the latter, who ruled in the ...

A new book on 19th century China tells how a low-ranking and unpopular member of the emperor's harem came to lead one-third of humanity 365 Bloor Street East, Toronto ...

It was broadcast as a Book of the Week on Radio 4. Like Wild Swans it is banned in China. 2013 saw the publication of Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China. Here Chang ...