[Photo/Agencies] While the last couple of years in the US-China trade relationship have been filled with rancor, there was an innocent time when both sides heartily embraced bilateral commerce. At the ...

and this innovation has caused quite a sensation at the Chinese Court. The painting of the portrait was suggested and the Dowager Empress's consent obtained by Mrs. Conger, wife of the United ...

The photographs of the Empress Dowager Cixi taken by Xunling ... “She thought about self-representation, and—out of the norm for Chinese portraiture—she sometimes posed in staged vignettes ...

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 ...

Wu Zetian’s influence across Central Asia helped boost trade, particularly in valuable commodities like silk and tea, which were highly in demand in distant parts of the world. Wu Zetian started her ...

(MENAFN- Asia Times) 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 ...

(ANALYSIS) 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, ...

(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 year ...

Stephanie Balkwill, University of California, Los Angeles (THE CONVERSATION) In sixth-century China, a woman known to history as Empress Dowager Ling ruled over an empire called the Northern Wei.