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 ...

The law's reach never stretched this far.

Peaches color the cheeks; eyebrows on fleek. A golden bird pinned; a jade hairpin waving in the wind. With the veteran skills of makeup artist Sun Aina, the peerless Tang Dynasty (618-907) imperial ...

Casual wear has the most variety in its patterns, designs and craftsmanship and was used on many occasions in the Qing imperial palace. It reflects the changing fashion trend and the concubines' view ...

Chinese actress Fan Bingbing said Friday she is honored to play legendary Chinese imperial concubine Yang Guifei for a second time in her acting career, in a film to be jointly made by South Korea, ...

AN IMPERIAL CONCUBINE'S TALE: Scandal, Shipwreck, and Salvation in 17th-Century Japan, by G.G. Rowley. Columbia University Press, 2013, 280 pp., $40 (hardcover) As G.G. Rowley notes in the preface to ...

Dowager Empress Cixi (1835-1908) craved eternal youth, but not only did she grow old, she wasn't even able to rest quietly in her tomb. In 1928, grave robbers blasted the tranquility of the imperial ...

IT is recorded that, when the Pearl Empress (his mother) asked of the philosophic Yellow Emperor which he considered the most beautiful of the Imperial concubines, he replied instantly, ‘ The Lady ...