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

There is a long history of U.S. and Chinese citizens forging relationships with one another through cultural exchange.

Jeffrey Wasserstrom is chancellor's professor of history at University of California ... a territory in the northwestern ...

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