As Guangxu's nephew's nephew, and nephew to Pu Yi, China's last emperor, he would have been the oldest male in his generation. Nowadays, this heavyset 65-year-old wearing thick spectacles is a ...

The study found lethal doses of arsenic in the hair, bones and clothes of the Qing Dynasty's (1644-1912) Guangxu Emperor, the China News Service says.

The Guangxu emperor, like all Chinese rulers, was known by a formal title given to his reign since commoners were not allowed to speak his name. He was a sick and depressed youth, ...

Guangxu was 4 when he was chosen to be emperor by Empress Cixi, his aunt, after her only son, Emperor Tongzhi died. Although he took power at the age of 16, it was Cixi who exerted total control ...

She also liked pomp and circumstance, even at inopportune moments—during the disastrous 1894 war with Japan (which, to be fair, Cixi had opposed, before being overridden by Guangxu), as China ...

Empress Dowager Cixi by Katharine A. Carl, 1903 Smithsonian Institution. In 1903, seemingly inexplicably, an American woman painted a 15-foot-tall portrait of China’s Empress Dowager Cixi, the ...

The Guangxu Emperor's death, from arsenic poisoning, led four years later to the end of imperial rule. Mr Jin, the Last Emperor's nephew, might well now be Great Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Lord ...

In 1644, China was under the control of the Ming dynasty. The Mings had seized power in 1368 but, after almost 300 years, their influence was beginning to weaken.

Guangxu, the second to last emperor of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), is best known for his unsuccessful attempt to modernize China by instituting reforms to the system of government in 1898.