This cultural hybridity enabled the empress dowager to rule directly: On one hand, the Chinese court system rooted in the Han dynasty had long included the position of empress dowager, even though ...

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

In 1975, the skull of a panda was unearthed in the tomb of Emperor Wen’s mother, Empress Dowager Bo, but the animal’s body was missing, possibly stolen. The Han dynasty’s economy prospered ...

the Chinese court system rooted in the Han dynasty had long included the position of empress dowager, even though none of the women who held it had ruled directly. On the other, Taghbach culture ...