The extreme makeover of Empress Dowager Cixi

Visit Royalty.nu for books and movies about China’s Empress Cixi (also spelled Tzu Hsi).

Tang Dynasty sarcophagus brought back home

 

(Official White House photo; copyright info here.)

Great Wall of China longer than believed as 180 missing miles found

Here’s a very interesting interview (audio) with Grant Hayter-Menzies, author of Imperial Masquerade, a biography of Princess Der Ling, lady-in-waiting to China’s Empress Dowager Cixi.

Thank you to Grant for this link!

“Hutongs date back to the 1400s, but many are being destroyed to make way for modernity.”

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