A craftsman makes a handicraft in an art village in Kuangyan Town, Cixi City, east China's Zhejiang Province, Dec. 24, 2025.

A pupil tries a plasma magic ball under the instruction of volunteers in Cixi City, east China's Zhejiang Province, July 22, 2019. A volunteer center in Cixi City opened science courses for local ...

Known as the dragon lady, the cruel ruler of China who marked the closing years of the Qing dynasty granted herself the saintly title of ‘old master Buddha’, and dressed up in lavish costumes for ...

"Too much mystery surrounds the Forbidden City for us to write of its inmates with assured authority. Even when the facts are known, there are two or three versions, each giving a different rendering ...

“It is necessary,” wrote Niccolò Machiavelli in his famous treatise on the craft of ruling, “to be a fox to discover the snares and a lion to terrify the wolves.” Shrewd statesmen from antiquity ...

She’s often known as wicked Empress Dowager Cixi; the iron-fisted ruler of China from the late 19th century. Most Thais are familiar with her from the historical novel Susi Thai Hao penned by MR ...

Toward the end of the Qing Dynasty, Empress Dowager Cixi arrogated all powers onto herself. This period, called the Guangxu Xuantong Reign, was China's darkest and most corrupt political period. Cixi ...