Once the most celebrated actress in China, award-winning Chinese screen legend Liu Xiaoqing will return to film in Hong Kong director Dennis Chen’s drama “37," in a role that rendered ...

Empress Dowager Cixi; Katharine A. Carl (1865–1938); Oil on canvas with camphor wood frame, 1903; Transfer from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, S2011.16 . Arguably the most powerful empress in ...

Jung Chang, Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China (Jonathan Cape, 2013) Princess Der Ling, Old Buddha (first published 1929; Kessinger Publishing, 2007) ...

This piece originally appeared on asiasociety.org. Jung Chang’s new biography Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013) recounts the remarkable life ...

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 ...

Set in the late Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), the 28-episode serial explores the power struggle in the imperial court between Emperor Guangxu and his mother, the Empress Dowager Cixi.

Cixi rose from a 16-year-old concubine of the emperor to ruler herself ... She then issued imperial edicts "from behind the curtains" that she and Dowager Empress Cian would rule China ...

The role of queen isn't new to Liu as she has played it in the past, including in the TV shows Wu Zetian, Shadow of Empress Wu and Secret History of Empress Wu. "I have played Empress Dowager Cixi ...

Set in the late Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), the 28-episode serial explores the power struggle in the imperial court between Emperor Guangxu and his mother, the Empress Dowager Cixi.

Empress Dowager Cixi by Jung Chang, review. The fatal charm of China’s unsung empress has beguiled even her biographer. By James Owen 11 October 2013 • 3:00pm .