Chinese actress-producer Liu Xiaoqing will star in and co-produce “Empress,” a U.S. television series in development about the seventh and eighth century empress Wu Zetian, Variety has learned ...

"Too much mystery surrounds the Forbidden City for us to write of its inmates with assured authority. Even when the facts are known, there are two or three versions, each giving a different rendering ...

Empress Dowager Cixi; Katharine A. Carl (1865–1938); Oil on canvas with camphor wood frame, 1903; Transfer from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, S2011.16 Arguably the most powerful empress in ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the woman who arrived at the Chinese court as a concubine only to become its most powerful figure for the final 50 years of Qing imperial rule. Show more Melvyn Bragg ...

The drama will be centered on Wu Zetian, the only female empress in the history of China. By Lesley Goldberg Chris Newman, Xu Yan, Kia Jam - Publicity - H 2016 With the end of Game of Thrones in sight ...

In Chinese patriarchal feudal society, image of empress, or female emperor seldom appeared, not even in fairy tales. Wu Zetian (AD 624-705), however, succeeded in treading on the forbidden zone to ...