"Empress Dowager Cixi is a fascinating figure because she represents a contradiction — she wielded immense power in a world ...

The Mountain Resort (the Qing dynasty's summer palace), in Hebei Province ... Elk jaar ging de keizer met zijn ministers, troepen, familie en concubines naar Mulan om te jagen. Op het jachtgebied ...

The show is about Empress Dowager CiXi, of the Manchu Yehenara clan, who ruled China for nearly 50 years right at the end of the Qing dynasty, and just before China stopped being a monarchy.

My grandfather chose his sweet-natured concubine and perhaps for that reason ... China's feminist movement dates back to the ...

Chinese-language films can be a tough nut to crack if you’re from the other side of the Great Wall. The culture can seem ...

This pair of Qing dynasty tigers (dating circa 1850) are carved in a style characteristic of later Chinese statuary: minimal surface decoration, low-relief carvings of abstracted forms such as ...

As the actors took the stage, their robes and makeup transformed them into scholars, concubines, government officials, army ...

Watching classic movies is “a portal," Drew told PEOPLE of her family dynasty in 2022. "I will be walking into the kitchen and there will be Lionel or John or Ethel or my dad, and I literally ...

Take Ellin’s Solhwa, for example, where a woman from the modern world wakes up in the body of a concubine in a mighty ... as a prince in the Joseon Dynasty, using his knowledge of modern ...

Likewise the abrupt rise to power of the fourth Mrs. Mao (Chiang Ching) must evoke the old adage that concubines gain influence as a dynasty reaches its end. Historical folklore, in short ...