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 ...

Wu Zetian, whose family was from Bing Zhou (modern-day Wenshui county, Shanxi province), was an empress and an outstanding politician. She ruled from behind the during the Gaozong emperor’s reign and ...

Chinese actress Zhou Xun plays the role of Yi Ural in the drama. [Photo/Official Weibo account of Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace] Reputed as the sequel of Empress in the Palace, a star-studded ...