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

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.

But the newly named Empress Dowager Cixi quickly ousted them on fabricated charges of incompetence. She then issued imperial edicts "from behind the curtains" that she and Dowager Empress Cian ...

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 ...

Fung's interest in Cixi is shaped both by her heritage and her reading of Chinese history. "Empress Dowager Cixi is a fascinating figure because she represents a contradiction — she wielded ...

The photographs of the Empress Dowager Cixi taken by Xunling are more Western than Eastern in style. Freer and Sackler Galleries, SI Spin doctoring—the art of turning bad news into good and ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than 14,000 troops of the Eight-Power Allied Forces continued to press on towards Beijing. Empress Dowager Cixi was compelled to declare war on the imperialist powers. Soldiers of the Qing army ...

Like Wild Swans it is banned in China. 2013 saw the publication of Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China. Here Chang reassesses the reputation of the formidable 19th ...