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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Chinese archeologists have found a mausoleum of 11 imperial concubines of Emperor Huangtaiji, the second emperor of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), in northern Shenyang, capital of Liaoning Province.

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 ...