Of these, the Yuling mausoleum of Emperor Qian Long and Dingling mausoleum of Emperor Dowager Ci Xi are the most magnificent. But in 1928 the underground palaces were blown open by warlord Sun ...

Zhen Huan convinces the Emperor to bring her back into the Imperial Harem. She takes on a new identity as Consort Xi, or ...

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“Dowager’s hump, neck hump, and hunchback all refer to the visible alteration of the spine at the base of the neck,” says ...

But the newly named Empress Dowager Cixi quickly ousted them on fabricated charges of incompetence. She then issued imperial edicts "from behind the curtains" that she and Dowager Empress Cian ...

Patricia Tuckwell married the 7th Earl of Harewood, George Lascelles, in 1967 in the United States The Dowager Countess of Harewood, Patricia Lascelles, has died aged 91. The Earl of Harewood ...

Han Hsiang Li's lush epic re-creates the fascinating life and times of Tzu Hsi, the Manchu Qing dynasty empress who rose from the ranks of Emperor Xianfeng's many concubines to become the de facto ...