"Empress Dowager Cixi is a fascinating figure because she represents a contradiction — she wielded immense power in a world ...

Genghis Khan wasn’t just the founder of the Mongol Empire—he may have left behind one of the biggest genetic legacies in ...

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Qing Ming Festival, or Tomb-Sweeping Day, falls on April 4 this year. On this day, the Chinese will clean up and decorate the gravesites of their ancestors, make food offerings and also burn paper ...

Chinese-language films can be a tough nut to crack if you’re from the other side of the Great Wall. The culture can seem ...

This pair of Qing dynasty tigers (dating circa 1850) are carved in a style characteristic of later Chinese statuary: minimal surface decoration, low-relief carvings of abstracted forms such as ...

Likewise the abrupt rise to power of the fourth Mrs. Mao (Chiang Ching) must evoke the old adage that concubines gain influence as a dynasty reaches its end. Historical folklore, in short ...

Watching classic movies is “a portal," Drew told PEOPLE of her family dynasty in 2022. "I will be walking into the kitchen and there will be Lionel or John or Ethel or my dad, and I literally ...