Empress Dowager Cixi

Empress Dowager Cixi

female, deceased (1908)
Empress Dowager Cixi, was from the Manchu Yehe Nara Clan. She was a powerful and charismatic figure who became the "de facto" ruler of the Manchu...
Empress Dowager Longyu

Empress Dowager Longyu

female, deceased (1913)
Yehenara, Empress Xiao Ding Jing ; is better known as the Empress Dowager Longyu (1868 - 1913). Longyu was the Qing Dynasty Empress Consort of the...
Empress Dowager Ci'An

Empress Dowager Ci'An

female, deceased (1881)
The Empress Dowager Ci'an 1837 - April 8, 1881, popularly known in China as the East Empress Dowager, before she was widowed known as Empress Zhen,...
Wang Mang

Wang Mang

male, deceased (23)
Wang Mang (45 BC-October 6, 23), courtesy name Jujun (巨君), was a Han Dynasty official who seized the throne from the Liu family and founded Xin (or...
Zhuge Liang

Zhuge Liang

male, deceased (234)
Zhuge Liang was one of the greatest Chinese strategists of the Three Kingdoms period, as well as a statesman, engineer, scholar, and inventor....
Sima Yi

Sima Yi

male, deceased (251)
Sima Yi (179 - 251) was a general, military strategist, and politician of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period. He is perhaps best known for...
Jiang Wei

Jiang Wei

male, deceased (264)
Jiang Wei, courtesy name Boyue (伯約), was a general and later (arguable) regent of Shu Han during the reign of its second emperor Liu Shan. He was...
Empress Dowager Hu

Empress Dowager Hu

female, deceased (528)
Empress Dowager Hu (d. May 17, 528), formally Empress Ling (靈皇后, literally "the unattentive empress"), was an empress dowager of the Chinese dynast...
Jiang Wan

Jiang Wan

male, deceased (245)
Jiang Wan (蔣琬) (? - 245), courtesy name Gongyan (公琰) was an official of Shu Han. After Zhuge Liang's death, he succeeded Zhuge as the regent f...
Zhuge Ke

Zhuge Ke

male, deceased (253)
Zhuge Ke, courtesy name Yuanxun (元遜), was the son of the Eastern Wu minister, Zhuge Jin, whose younger brother was the great Shu statesman Zhug...