But the newly named Empress Dowager ... as the new Qing emperor even though he was only two years old. She was buried in splendour in the Eastern Qing Tombs. Like Wu Zetian, Cixi has long 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.

In her groundbreaking new biography, Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern ... They defeated the peasant rebels, occupied the whole of China and set up a new dynasty called the Great ...

The mausoleums of Emperor Qianlong, called the Yuling, and Empress Dowager Cixi, called the Dingdongling, have been renovated and are open to visitors. The Qing Dynasty attained its greatest power ...

The political centre of the Qing Dynasty displayed imposing dignity in a tranquil ... The decision was plotted by Empress Dowager Cixi. After she began to hold court from behind a screen in 1873, she ...

"The Confidant" depicts how a group of eunuchs survive in the weakening Qing empire ... years of the Qing Dynasty. The drama also follows Li's relationship with Empress Dowager Cixi, and how ...

On October 11, 1900, Li Hongzhang, chief minister of the Qing government, came to Beijing from Tianjin ... in front of the Jingshan Hill were illuminated by such lamps. Empress Dowager Cixi was ...