The Empress Dowager

Year: 1989

Runtime: 90 mins

Language: Chinese

Director: Li Han-Hsiang

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Han Hsiang‑Li’s visually sumptuous epic dramatizes the extraordinary career of Tzu Hsi, the Manchu Qing dynasty empress who began as one of Emperor Xianfeng’s many concubines and, through shrewd political maneuvering, emerged as the de facto ruler of China, guiding the empire for almost five decades.

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