Throughout China's long, male-dominated history ... But the newly named Empress Dowager Cixi quickly ousted them on fabricated charges of incompetence. She then issued imperial edicts "from ...

Mail advices from Shanghai state that the Empress Dowager of China is maintaining her power ... the Empress is gradually beheading all of the palace officers and servants, including ladies in ...

Toward the end of the Qing Dynasty, Empress Dowager Cixi arrogated all powers onto herself. This period, called the Guangxu Xuantong Reign, was China's ... the Imperial Palace and the Summer ...

But the most captivating aspect of his long career in China was the trust he built up with senior imperial figures, most notably Dowager Empress Cixi, the second last Empress of China who reigned ...

Mao Tse Tung was fifteen when the Empress Dowager died in 1908. The one succeeded the other after only forty years. How great seems the incongruity between these two, and how entire the overturning of ...

Best-selling author Jung Chang’s newest work, Empress Dowager Cixi, upends the stereotypes of China’s last Empress, who ruled for nearly five decades until her death in 1908. Instead of a cruel, ...

Jung Chang's fast-paced and gripping story reassesses the reputation of the formidable 19th-century stateswoman. Read by Pik-Sen Lim. Abridged by Sara Davies ...