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

This cultural hybridity enabled the empress dowager to rule directly: On one hand, the Chinese court system rooted in the Han dynasty had ... with Buddhism, a religion that they had inherited ...

In sixth-century China, a woman known to history as Empress Dowager Ling ruled over an empire called the Northern Wei.

Wind-driven wildfires that were among South Korea’s worst ever were ravaging the country’s southern regions, killing 24 ...

was buried alongside three other individuals in a tomb dating from the period between 202 BCE and 8 CE during the Han Dynasty, a time when Turpan was a major center of the Silk Road.

Xinjiang’s strategic role in the Belt and Road Initiative has also led to demographic engineering, as Beijing resettles Han ...