The "Training Day" helmer is set for historic epic about a Tang Dynasty emperor and one of China's four legendary beauties. By Karen Chu HONG KONG – Training Day director Antoine Fuqua has signed on ...

HENGDIAN, China — If you are going to make a movie in China today about ancient warriors defending a mythical kingdom or a partisan resisting the Japanese occupation in the 1930s, or involving any ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. CHEN KAIGE'S RAVISHING EPIC Farewell My Concubine should be the movie ...

Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival, Chen Kaige’s historical epic, Farewell My Concubine, spans fifty years of 20th-century Chinese history while shining a spotlight on the ...

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China’s deposed Emperor, weak-eyed, spidery-limbed Mr. Henry Pu Yi, was not compelled last week to recognize famed Concubine Shu Fei as his “wife” or to answer her suit for “divorce” (TIME, Oct. 12).

Her original first name was considered too inconsequential to enter in the court registry, yet she became the most powerful woman in 19th-century China. Born in 1835 to a prominent Manchu family, Cixi ...

Greg Jenner is joined in nineteenth-century China by historian Professor Yangwen Zheng and comedian Sophie Duker to learn about the Qing dynasty ruler Empress Dowager Cixi. A contemporary of Queen ...