In 1925, a decade on from the downfall of its last emperor, China remains deeply divided. Its people are at the mercy of ...

BEIJING, April 10. /TASS/. Puren, a half-brother of Puyi, the last Emperor of China, has died in Beijing aged 96, local media reported on Friday. Puren, also known as Jin Youzhi, was Puyi’s last ...

Actress Lisa Lu will become the oldest recipient of a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Monday when she is honored at 98 for a movie career which has included appearing in such films as “The Last ...

In the Western press, she was portrayed as something like the mother of all dragon ladies, and the impression remained long after she died in 1908, having appointed China’s last emperor ...

China’s last emperor, Puyi ascended to the Qing dynasty throne at age three, only to be stripped of his title three years later, after the Wuchang uprising that triggered the 1911 revolution.

What he said to me was: you are right. And then he added: Xi Jinping is much more than a president of China – he sees himself as an emperor of China. With even greater powers than Mao Zedong ever had.

The Qing were the last dynasty close dynastyA series of ... although he did not rule as Emperor of China himself. Nurhaci spent much of his life fighting, and he was also clearly an ambitious ...

The term "empire" is a concept commonly used in contemporary China, albeit with somewhat vague connotations. Having an emperor doesn't automatically qualify a state as an "empire." Historical ...