The Chinese actress is best known for her role in the 2011 fantasy drama “Scarlet Heart,” which netted her a raft of awards — ...

Ancient Chinese genre painting as a unique art form has been endowed with a relatively broad developing space since the Song Dynasty.

More than 70 adaptations of the prolific Taiwanese romance author’s books were made for TV and cinema. Some made stars of ...

A scrap metal dealer was wandering through a Midwestern flea market in 2004 when he spotted a tiny gold egg. He thought he ...

Wu Zetian's story illustrates that even the most powerful woman couldn't act on her desires. Rising from Tang Dynasty (618-907) Emperor Gaozong's queen to founding the Zhou Dynasty (690-705), she ...

Chiung Yao, arguably the world's most popular Chinese language romance novelist, has died in an apparent suicide. The 86-year ...

Yao started writing at 18 and became one of the world’s most famous Chinese-language writers, publishing around 65 novels ...

Chiung Yao started writing at 18 and published more than 60 novels, many of which were adapted into movies and TV series and remained ... set in the 18th century Qing Dynasty, is regarded as ...

re-arrangement and re-writing of the Qing Dynasty opera collection at the Palace Museum in Beijing, and eventually decided to present these three stories as the first series," she said.

36.6 x 25 cm. (14.4 x 9.8 in.) ...