But the newly named Empress Dowager Cixi quickly ousted them on ... Of her contemporary Queen Victoria, Cixi observed: "I don't think her life is half as interesting or eventful as mine." ...

The empress dowager probably directed the photographer, not the other way around. Archivist Hogge says she may have taken the camera-friendly Queen Victoria as her role model. Sean Callahan ...

"Empress Dowager Cixi is a fascinating figure because she represents a contradiction — she wielded immense power in a world that sought to diminish women's authority," says the artist.

(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 ...

Last week's episode of The Apothecary Diaries, "The Empress Dowager", took anime fans down a dark rabbit hole filled with ...

She challenges the conventional view of the Dowager Empress as a deeply conservative and cruel despot. Chang joined Woman's Hour on Radio 4 in September 1995 to discuss her best-selling ...