The televised saga of a 7th Century Chinese empress has proved too hot to handle for China's censors, who have cancelled the wildly-popular show after only a week A much-anticipated TV drama about ...

In sixth-century China, a woman known to history as Empress Dowager Ling ruled over an empire called the Northern Wei. Historians do not know her birth name or in what year she was born, but they do ...

The Last Empress, the conclusion of novelist Anchee Min’s two-part re-examination of the life and times of Chinese ruler Tsu Hsi, takes place mostly in the 19th century. But the purpose behind ...

Larry Namer’s Metan Entertainment and Entree Pictures are to produce an English-language movie about 7th century Chinese Empress Wu. The film is an adaptation of the novel “Empress” by ...

Wu Zetian rose from the bottom of the hierarchy to become the only empress in China's history. Buddhism, a religion born in India, and Nalanda-trained scholars played an important role as Wu ...

Nobody knows exactly what's inside the 1,200-year-old Qianling mausoleum, the tomb of Wu Zetian, the famous empress of ancient China during the Tang Dynasty (618-907), because Chinese ...

Empress Wu is one of the most popular characters in Chinese history. The fortunes of the world's wealthiest individuals reach staggering heights. From high-profile entrepreneurs to visionary ...

The photographs of the Empress Dowager Cixi taken by Xunling ... “She thought about self-representation, and—out of the norm for Chinese portraiture—she sometimes posed in staged vignettes ...