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.

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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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 ...

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 ...

Here's a guide to master the Empress Dowager, Queen mother of Yong, Mi Yue in Honor of Kings. Honor of Kings’ resident empress dowager of Yong, Mi Yue, has joined the Gorge's lineup. Her prowess in ...

The first modern empress to take up sericulture was Empress Dowager Shoken, wife of Emperor Meiji. At that time, silk exports had become an important industrial sector in Japan and the empress ...

Despite Kuang Hsu's enthronement as the last reigning Emperor of China, his ability to rule effectively is overshadowed by the ever-present power of the Dowager Empress. When his attempts to ...

Those born on this date are under the sign of Sagittarius. They include: -- Austrian physicist Christian Doppler in 1803 -- Author Louisa May Alcott in 1832 -- Chinese Empress Dowager Tz'u Hsi in 1835 ...

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 ...