When Wanrong became the Empress of China, she was already ruling over a ghost land. In a matter of months, her country abolished the monarchy, turning all Wanrong’s decadent pleasures into dust.

The empress dowager probably directed the photographer ... and the impression remained long after she died in 1908, having appointed China’s last emperor, Puyi. After Xunling’s sister Deling ...

He is likened to Empress Dowager Cixi, who in 1900 effectively declared war on the Western powers in China, a disastrous move that helped accelerate the collapse of imperial China To many Chinese ...