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 ...

"Empress Dowager Cixi is a fascinating figure because she represents a contradiction — she wielded immense power in a world that sought to diminish women's authority," says the artist. "Cixi has been ...

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.

That was Empress Dowager Cixi’s life story; the woman who ruled China in the 19th century and arguably the most important Chinese woman in history. Born in 1835, Cixi was brought in as a ...

A team of about 150 restorers fuses scientific analysis and traditional techniques to clean, patch up and otherwise revive ...

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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 ...

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In June, 1928, Sun Dianying took advantage of the opportunity of garrisoning Mashen Bridge of Jixian County and dug up the graves of Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Qianlong. Sun Dianying took ...

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 ...

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 ...