In sixth-century China, a woman known to history as Empress Dowager Ling ruled over an empire called the Northern Wei. Historians do not know her birth name or in what year she was born, but they do ...
Empress Dowager Cixi strikes a pose Photo courtesy of the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Empress Dowager Cixi is known historically as one of the most powerful women in the world.
3 Cast Set for FRIGID New York's World Premiere Of FALLING OUT: A New Musical At UNDER St. Marks Yangtze Repertory Theatre's 20th anniversary production is "The Empress Dowager," a three-act epic ...
Intrigue! Riches! Sex! Some violence! Not the latest movie plot, but a story that lurks in the background of some 100-year-old photographs of The Empress Dowager — once the most powerful woman in Asia ...
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A STRUGGLING mass of humanity was crowding out of the northeast gate of the Forbidden City. Order, etiquette, ceremony, — none of these amenities of life, customary to the existence of the Son of ...
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