(THE CONVERSATION) 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 ...

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IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Arguably the most powerful empress in ...

Several photos of Fan Bingbing dressed-up as the character Empress Wu Zetian for the eponymous TV series The Empress of China has been released. [Photo/Guangming Online] ...