Wu Zetian rose from the bottom of the hierarchy to become the only empress in China's history. Buddhism, a religion born in India, and Nalanda-trained scholars played an important role as Wu ...

In sixth-century China, a woman known to history as Empress Dowager Ling ruled over an empire called the Northern Wei. Historians do not know her birth name or in what year she was born ...

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 ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) In sixth-century China, a woman known to history as Empress Dowager Ling ruled over an empire called the Northern Wei. Historians do not know her birth name or in what ...