Powerful Portraits Capture China's Empress Dowager – China News
www.npr.org — Intrigue! Riches! Sex! Some violence! Not the latest movie plot, but a story that lurks in the background of some 100-year-old photographs of The Empress Dowager — once the most powerful woman in Asia. The mostly black-and-white photos are on display after decades collecting dust and give a glimpse of Old China at a time when today's China is the picture of modern power.
