Monstrous Beauty’ at the Met proposes a link between Europeans’ attitudes towards Chinoiserie and their fetishisation of the ...

Jung Chang's new biography Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013) recounts the remarkable life of China's Empress Cixi (1835-1908), who ruled China for ...

In her groundbreaking new biography, Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013), Jung Chang tells the extraordinary life story of China's Empress Cixi ...

Empress Dowager Cixi Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the woman who arrived at the Chinese court as a concubine only to become its most powerful figure for the final 50 years of Qing imperial rule.

As well as this, she has also authored books on Empress Dowager Cixi, who led China from 1861 until her death in 1908, and the lives of the Soong sisters, who were among the most significant ...

Jung Chang, in conversation about her latest book, Empress Dowager Cixi, with Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society. From author and historian Jung ...

Internationally known for the bestselling Wild Swans and Mao: The Unknown Story, Jung Chang has returned with her first book in eight years. Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern ...

The Empress Dowager, Cixi, led China for the best part of 50 years, from 1861 till her death in 1908, modernising the then medieval country. She did so at a time when women had no formal mandate ...

In the Chinese-speaking world, everyone knew of the Soong sisters. Amid the political tumult of 20th-century China, they were at the centre of power. They were like a fairytale: one loved power ...

The Empress Dowager was really powerful, and she was the ruler of China on and off for nearly half a century. She was the first modernizer of China, bringing medieval China into the modern age.

Empress Dowager Cixi of China (1835-1908). She brought medieval China into the modern age at a time when women were not allowed to be rulers, so she ran – and transformed – the country from behind a ...