The photographs of the Empress Dowager Cixi ... True, she had been the de facto ruler of China since 1881, maneuvering her way out of concubinage by bearing Emperor Xianfeng a male heir and ...

Qianling, the tomb of the third Tang emperor, Li Zhi, and Empress Wu Zetian ... gems of the ancient Chinese art of stone carving. Most of these stone pieces line the sides of the spirit path ...

And this programme is about a masterpiece of painting from China ... to dethrone the Emperor. The Emperor himself was mentally deficient, and so his wife, Empress Jia, had a great deal of power ...

Empress Wu Zetian entered the Chinese court as a fifth-tier concubine, but she ended her life as the country's only female emperor ... and Sognefjord The Cave Art That Might Prove Humans Lived ...

Chinese Characters ... as the emperor’s concubine, she killed her own newborn child (the Emperor’s child too, of course), and then accused the Empress of having committed the murder.