Dominique Fung promises an expansive “experience” with Beneath the Golden Canopy at Massimo de Carlo, Hong Kong, her inaugural show in the city.
The empress, like many other rulers at the time, legitimized her reign through Buddhism, portraying herself either as a ...
(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 ...
Top foreign CEOs to attend annual China Development Forum in Beijing Major attendees include Qualcomm, FedEx, Siemens, BMW, Saudi Aramco, Rio Tinto, Citadel: draft agenda Notable increase in ...
Moved by the emperor’s devotion, he set out to craft a perfume worthy of an empress, one that exuded ... aside from a little essence of Guerlain in her hair.” Even today, Shalimar continues ...
Even though the Empress Dowager Ling’s rule was problematic and short — resulting in her assassination — she laid the foundation for other, more successful female rulers across medieval East Asia.