Was Cixi’s power unusual for a woman in China? Who were the Qing dynasty’s previous powerful empresses? And what, anyway, is an “empress dowager”? These are among the questions addressed ...

The Qing Dynasty was founded by a northeast Asian ... mother to the emperor and the 1st consort. Empresses typically wear a vest and a band of blue on their sleeve in addition to their yellow ...

The exhibition comprises the lavish paintings, sumptuous court robes, objets d’art and religious artifacts owned by the five most powerful Qing dynasty empresses (out of two dozen). It ...

Sackler Gallery in Washington on Saturday. The exhibition, which runs through June 23, explores empresses' lives during Qing Dynasty. ZHAO HUANXIN / CHINA DAILY Looking into a mirror, a young ...

intricately embroidered robes and portraits – picked from Beijing’s vast Palace Museum collection to illustrate the lives of empresses in China’s Qing dynasty feature in a new book.

Empress Xiaoxian, Qing dynasty, Qianlong period, 1777, with repainting possibly in 19th century, Ignatius Sichelbarth (Ai Qimeng) [China (born in Bohemia), 1708–1780], Yi Lantai (active about ...

The Xi Tombs of the Qing Dynasty are located among the mountains some 100 km west of Beijing. This site is smaller than that of the Dong Tombs and with fewer emperors and empresses buried.

Chinese TV drama "Empresses in the Palace", or "the Legend ... among the emperor's concubines in the imperial palace of the Qing Dynasty. The series has already been broadcast in Japan, South ...

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has acquired popular Chinese drama Empresses In The Palace for ... s concubines in the imperial palace of the Qing Dynasty. Intriguingly, however, the move’s real significance ...

The Qing Dynasty in China, after over 250 years, crumbled in 1912. Led by the Complexity Science Hub (CSH), an international research team has pinpointed key reasons behind the collapse ...