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 ...

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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Your child throws a tantrum and smashes something? Take out "naughty child insurance". Similarly, buy cover against your bride becoming pregnant before the honeymoon, your team ...

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 ...

Nine years is a long time to be the concubine of any man, especially of the deposed Emperor of China, weak-eyed and sapless Mr. Henry Pu Yi. Last week pretty Shu Fei, that Imperial concubine known ...

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).

A Chinese government agency scrubbed a charged comment by an official spokesperson on Wednesday after he compared Taiwan's relationship with the United States to that of a mistress. Ma Xiaoguang, ...

When “Farewell My Concubine” hit the screens in China in 1993, many were shocked by its portrayal of taboo subjects—homosexuality, suicide and the Cultural Revolution. The story follows two young boys ...

This survey of the role of women in early Chinese dynastic history succeeds in elucidating patterns over many periods. University of Kansas professor McMahon relies on a variety of sources, including ...