Chinese imperial food dates back to slave society ... an organization was set up to prepare and serve food to the emperor and empress. Officials were appointed, royalty began seeking pleasures ...

"Empress Dowager Cixi is a fascinating figure because she represents a contradiction — she wielded immense power in a world that sought to diminish women's authority," says the artist. "Cixi has been ...

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Made exclusively for the Northern Song court, Ru Kiln porcelain wares are by far the most celebrated of Chinese ceramics, ...

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 was born ...

The magnet is available in two varieties, one in wood and the other in metal. It is fashioned after a Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 ...

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 was born, but they do ...