This cultural hybridity enabled the empress dowager to rule directly: On one hand, the Chinese court system rooted in the Han ...

Zhang Rang, Eastern Han Dynasty . In the later years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, ... Through astute flattery he pleased the Empress Dowager Hu but later on, he murdered her lover, ...

The panda was found in a group of animal sacrifice pits on a hill near a sprawling mausoleum belonging to Emperor Wen of the Han dynasty, who reigned from 180 to 157 B.C. Its head faces east, in ...

(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 ...

(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 ...

(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 ...