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The lurid and grotesque stories surrounding Jeffrey Epstein may be seen as a modern echo of the excesses of ancient Chinese imperial harems. The number of women involved was not 3,000, to be sure, but ...

In the bitter cold of Manchuria great things were about to happen this week. Squads of police had searched every house in Changchung and confiscated 3,000 rifles and 150,000 rounds of ammunition.

Greg Jenner is joined in nineteenth-century China by historian Professor Yangwen Zheng and comedian Sophie Duker to learn about the Qing dynasty ruler Empress Dowager Cixi. Show more Greg Jenner is ...

Far fewer people alive today are related to Genghis Khan than is commonly believed, according to a new study that upends the ...

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“Formidable” is the first word that comes to mind when reflecting on these extraordinary female rulers. Most of them rose to ...

The empress, like many other rulers at the time, legitimized her reign through Buddhism, portraying herself either as a Buddha or as a patron of Buddhists.