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 ...

Widow’s Mite. As the dowager empress of tin, Albina will not have as easy a time as her ruthless husband in his heyday. Through the world cartel he created with the British and Dutch (in 1930 ...

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.