The empress, like many other rulers at the time, legitimized her reign through Buddhism, portraying herself either as a ...

In sixth-century China, a woman known to history as Empress Dowager Ling ruled over an empire called the Northern Wei.

(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 she ...

Maomao’s reputation for resolving conflicts reaches the empress dowager, who will ask her to help unravel a mystery that ...

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.