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 ...

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The foundation of Long'en Palace of Empress Dowager Ci Xi was dug more than four meters deep, and 685 cypress stakes and 8,881 pegs were driven into the ground with earth packed tight around them.

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.

She ruled as empress consort, empress dowager (a widow who inherited a title from her late husband) and officially as empress regnant from 690–705. She was the only officially recognized empress ...

Han Hsiang Li's lush epic re-creates the fascinating life and times of Tzu Hsi, the Manchu Qing dynasty empress who rose from the ranks of Emperor Xianfeng's many concubines to become the de facto ...

the Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna (Dame Angela Lansbury), promised to the ones who'll find her. But the evil mystic of the Czar family, Grigori Rasputin (Christopher Lloyd), still wants the ...

They include: Advertisement -- Austrian physicist Christian Doppler in 1803 -- Author Louisa May Alcott in 1832 -- Chinese Empress Dowager Tz'u Hsi in 1835 -- English electrical engineer John ...

The story of Anna Anderson (Amy Irving), the woman who claimed to be the sole survivor of the 1918 assassination of Russia's czar and his family. Cyril: Rex Harrison. Dowager Empress: Olivia de ...