Empress Wu Zetian entered the Chinese court as a fifth-tier concubine, but she ended her life as the country's only female emperor. Once described as hated by "gods and men alike," Zetian ...

Chinese Characters is a new series of essays ... Well, this was one of the most horrific stories told about her: as the emperor’s concubine, she killed her own newborn child (the Emperor ...

Throughout China's long, male-dominated history ... at the age of 16, became the emperor's concubine. She quickly became a favourite and, after giving birth to Emperor Xianfeng's only son ...

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After that, Emperor Kang Xi and his concubines were also entombed in East ... inscriptions by Emperor Shun Zhi both in Manchu and Chinese. After the big stone arch is the gate of the dragon ...

A total of more than 25,000 Chinese characters are embroidered on this three-meter-wide quilt made in Nanjing. Thirty-six burial mounds for the concubines of Emperor Qianlong are located in the ...

Perhaps the most notorious concubine in Chinese history, Yang Guifei set a pudgy standard of beauty in her days of glory during the Tang dynasty. The Emperor Minghuang was so besotted with the ...

Wu Zhao - noble, beautiful and well-educated - became the concubine of the elderly Emperor Taizong at the ... Confucian beliefs followed by official Chinese historians over the centuries.

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