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 ...

ASNC and the Mechanics’ Institute are pleased to host writer Jung Chang, who will talk about her latest work Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China. The book is a biography of ...

The image of Cixi as a cruel and greedy tyrant gained historical traction in 1910, when Backhouse and another British journalist, J.O.P. Bland, published the book China Under the Empress Dowager.

Few women have had as long and uninterrupted sway over Chinese politics and society as Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908). Her story is more fraught and high-octane than the finest Peking Opera, of ...

Gayle Anderson was live in Santa Ana to see something rare. It’s “Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908): Selections From The Summer Palace.” While most commonly understood as a politician, this ...

The Empress Dowager Cixi ruled China, mostly directly, from the death of her husband, Emperor Xianfeng, in 1861 to her own death in 1908, an era when foreign powers gnawed away at the Chinese empire.

Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China. By Jung Chang. Knopf; 464 pages; $30. Jonathan Cape; £20. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk CHINA’S last real imperial ruler, the ...

Ten black and white photos of imperial personages have surfaced in Nanjing, including photos of Dowager Cixi, imperial concubines and Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi, the last emperor of China. Although very ...

Empress Dowager Cixi was “not a role model” Biographer Jung Chang on the woman who banned foot-binding in China -- and her ruthless political maneuverings ...

Cixi did not trust these men to competently rule China, so she conspired with Empress Zhen, her close friend and the deceased emperor's first wife, to orchestrate a coup.

Jung Chang, in conversation about her latest book, Empress Dowager Cixi, with Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society. From author and historian Jung ...