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.

Meet-leading trainer Brendan Walsh entered three in Keeneland's $350,000 Dowager Stakes (G3T) for fillies and mares going 1 1/2 miles on the grass Oct. 19. Walsh, who topped the trainer standings with ...

Stalking just behind the leader for most of the 1 1/2-mile turf test, Apple Betty powered home to a 3 1/2-length win in the $125,000 Rood and Riddle Dowager Stakes (G3T) Oct. 22 at Keeneland. Joe ...

Empress Dowager Cixi strikes a pose Photo courtesy of the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Empress Dowager Cixi is known historically as one of the most powerful women in the world.

Discover Jiang Shan's masterful performance as Empress Dowager Cixi in the riveting palace drama, Deling And Cixi. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

SBS’s “The Last Empress” has unveiled new stills of Shin Eun Kyung in her role as empress dowager! “The Last Empress” is a new Wednesday-Thursday drama set in an alternate universe in which a ...

Each season of "Downton Abbey" marks the end of an era, whether it be the literal end of the Edwardian era, the end of the first World War or just the end of life as usual at the great house. But it ...