Toward the end of the Qing Dynasty, Empress Dowager Cixi arrogated ... 10 people all day to prepare. Every year Cixi spent the summer at the Summer Palace, the Three Lakes area (now Beihai Park ...
In 1900 a scholar jumped in a Beijing well out of shame. A palace consort died in a Forbidden City well too. Was she ...
But the newly named Empress Dowager Cixi quickly ousted them on fabricated charges of incompetence. She then issued imperial edicts "from behind the curtains" that she and Dowager Empress Cian ...
One day, he issued 11 such edicts. The vigorous reform movement enraged Empress Dowager Cixi residing in the Summer Palace. With the support of conservative ministers at court, Cixi hurried back to ...
The Diplomat’s Justin McDonnell spoke with author Jung Chang about her latest book, Empress Dowager Cixi ... She organized an opera show in the Summer Palace with the title Women Can Be Patriots.