(THE CONVERSATION) 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 ...

Han Hsiang Li's lush epic re-creates the fascinating life and times of Tzu Hsi, the Manchu Qing dynasty empress who rose from the ranks of Emperor Xianfeng's many concubines to become the de facto ...

Lorien Chen, editor of BQ magazine tells listeners that famous Chinese movie star Liu Xiaoqing will come to Melbourne with her stage play ' Empress Wu Zeting' in early March.

Wu Zetian is a Chinese television series based on the life story of Wu Zetian, the only woman in Chinese history to assume the title of Empress ... the series starred Liu Xiaoqing as the titular ...