The role of women in society is central to her practice, and her first Hong Kong solo show, Beneath the Golden Canopy, centers around the figure of Empress Dowager Cixi, who was the most powerful ...

Empress Dowager Ling was not a warrior, but she embraced martial symbols of her own power that were available to women in Taghbach culture but not in Chinese culture. For example, she was an ...

Empress Wu Zetian entered the Chinese court as a fifth-tier concubine ... Last A Lifetime Archeologists Stumble Upon a 1000-Year-Old ‘White Road’ Built by a Ruthless Maya Warrior Queen ...

Throughout China's long, male-dominated history ... eight ministers to act as regents to his five-year-old son. But the newly named Empress Dowager Cixi quickly ousted them on fabricated charges ...

In the fall and winter, the foliage gradually turns a showy reddish-purple until new foliage pushes off the old leaves to emerge in spring. Empress of China is available in the Southern Living ...