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 ...

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.

Guangxu ascended to the Chinese throne in 1875, around age 4, and he ruled in the shadow of his biological aunt, the Empress Dowager Cixi, who adopted the boy just before he became the emperor.

In school, many received a boring, whitewashed version of Mark Twain—a humorist of bottomless wit certainly, and comfortably ...

Based on the award-winning novel The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixi, the series follows a young woman in 1960s China who ...

The first recorded instance of nail art as we see it today was actually the Inca Empire. Spanning across the 15th and 16th ...

Kangxi and Qianlong both administered the empire from here, and after the failure of the Reform Movement of 1898, Emperor Guangxu was imprisoned here by Empress Dowager Cixi. He died in 1908 in ...

Chun Sun (Yuan Shi-kai)Zhong Lü (Empress Dowager Cixi)Yonggui Li (Li Lianying)Shaohua Ma (Sun Yat-sen)Min Xu (Aisin Gioro Yi Kuang (Prince Qing))Guangjie Li (Emperor Guangxu)Hongrui Zhang (Liang ...

The Qing were the last dynasty close dynastyA series of rulers who are all from the same family. to rule China. Founded by the Manchus close ManchuThe Manchu are a people from northeast China.

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 ...