Best-selling author Jung Chang’s newest work, Empress Dowager Cixi, upends the stereotypes of China’s last Empress, who ruled for nearly five decades until her death in 1908. Instead of a cruel, ...

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The Last Empress,' a pioneering original musical, celebrates 2 million attendees In 1982, Korean producer Yun Ho-jin traveled ...

But the most captivating aspect of his long career in China was the trust he built up with senior imperial figures, most notably Dowager Empress Cixi, the second last Empress of China who reigned ...

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 ...