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In China's Valley of the Kings, there stands a tall, carved stone. It honors the resting place of a woman named Wu Zetian, who rose from concubine to become China's only female emperor. For more than ...

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Even more strikingly than the Mongols, the Manchu illustrate a principle that we can also see in the Turkic invasions of Persia, the Arabic invasion of large parts of the Eastern Roman Empire and of ...

A BIT surprisingly, one of the best things about the “Story of Yanxi Palace”, a television drama about an 18th-century emperor that has broken Chinese viewing records this year, is watching concubines ...

HONG KONG (Hollywood Reporter) - "Training Day" director Antoine Fuqua has signed on to direct a Chinese biopic about a legendary concubine. The as-yet-untitled film will tell the tragic love story ...

In Peiping last week girlish hearts fluttered fast as news went round that an envoy of 30-year-old Emperor Kang Te of Manchukuo, formerly known as Henry Pu Yi (“Boy Emperor of China”), had arrived ...

Shooting the Emperor of China’s cousin is not the dangerous feat that once it was. For one thing the “rightful” Boy Emperor, P’u-yi (alias Henry), is a deposed nobody who dwells under Japanese ...

It’s not even October, but already the 70-episode Chinese soap opera “Story of Yanxi Palace” is poised to be one of the biggest Chinese pop culture phenomena of the year. Since its first episodes were ...

READERS of China under the Empress Dowager may remember how, when the great Tzŭ Hsi lay a-dying, the watchers by her bedside asked her, in accordance with ancient custom, to pronounce her last words. ...