Her reign coincided with the empire's tumultuous decline. Cixi entered the Forbidden City as a concubine in 1851, at age 16, and delivered Emperor Xianfeng his only male heir five years later ...

The creation from Huo Tingxiao, art director on such movies as ‘Farewell My Concubine,’ features ... of the Imperial Garden in the Forbidden City in Beijing. The caisson is a key element ...

The Forbidden City: The world's most magnificent palace ... but it meant a particular concubine might not be called to the imperial bed-chamber for many years, and some were never summoned at ...

The Forbidden City lay quietly in between the Tenement ... There, he systematically chooses a concubine from a UNIX. For each night, one is chosen either for diplomatic reasons or sometimes ...

The Forbidden City was once one of the most powerful places ... closely connected to Empress Dowager Cixi – a former royal concubine who controlled China ruthlessly for almost 50 years until ...

Visitor numbers are reportedly up at the Forbidden City thanks to this summer’s ... girl who enters imperial court as a maid, becomes a concubine, and rises rapidly through the ranks while ...

Now 28, and alternately based in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, Tan is starring in Singapore Repertory Theatre’s Forbidden City: Portrait Of An Empress, which was first commissioned by the ...

Previously, a video claimed to have shown ankle-deep deluge near the Forbidden City's Cining Palace, where the imperial concubine or the dowager used to live. Some netizens have questioned whether ...

Designed by Huo Tingxiao, vice chairman of the China Film Association and president of the China Film Art Direction Academy and an art director on such films as Farewell My Concubine, Hero ...