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The Apothecary Diaries isn't afraid to show its characters in a darker light no matter how powerful they may be.

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The Tang Dynasty (618–907 CE) is generally regarded as a golden age in imperial Chinese history. The dynasty’s greatness owes ...

And Cixi, an erstwhile concubine to the Xianfeng Emperor who maneuvered her way to the apex, is portrayed as the "she-dragon", towering over the phoenix-bodied Ci'an. Interestingly, there is a ...

Domestic cats first stepped paw in China more than a millennia ago, a new study has found. Their route in? Quite likely, the ...

Empress Wu Zetian entered the Chinese court as a fifth-tier concubine, but she ended her life as the country's only female emperor. Once described as hated by “gods and men alike," Zetian developed a ...

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Indian history is replete with heroes and heroines who deserve commemoration much more than the worst emperor of the Mughal ...