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.
Beginning royal life as a low-ranking concubine, Cixi controlled Qing-dynasty China for nearly half a century from behind the ...
At 11 o’clock on a warm summer’s morning in 1903, 38-year-old artist Katharine Augusta Carl was ushered into the throne room of the Summer Palace, on the western outskirts of Beijing. 67-year-old ...
In her groundbreaking new biography, Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013), Jung Chang tells the extraordinary life story of China's Empress Cixi ...
"Too much mystery surrounds the Forbidden City for us to write of its inmates with assured authority. Even when the facts are known, there are two or three versions, each giving a different rendering ...
This piece originally appeared on asiasociety.org. Jung Chang’s new biography Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013) recounts the remarkable life of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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