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This film is a historical drama set in the imperial court in the closing years of the Qing dynasty (late 19th and early 20th century). The Empress Dowager Cixi wielded effective power during much of this period, having staged a coup in 1861 that made her regent over the infant Emperor X and then, after his death, the young Emperor Guangxu. Cixi ...
At a lavish banquet, the Manchurian Empress Dowager Cixi of the 19th century Qing empire orders security chief of the Forbidden City Liu Jing Tian to capture the five thieves that stole 2 million taels from the Royal Treasury. Lord Liu, in turn, asks chief court constable Leng Tian-Ying, nicknamed Killer Constable, to assemble a small group of ...
19th; 20th; 21st; 22nd; 23rd; 24th; Pages in category "Films set in 19th-century Qing dynasty" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total.
The literary critic and sinologist Andrew H. Plaks writes that the term "classic novels" in reference to these six titles is a "neologism of twentieth-century scholarship" that seems to have come into common use under the influence of C. T. Hsia's The Classic Chinese Novel.
18th-century Chinese novels (12 P) 19th-century Chinese novels (9 P) D. Dream of the Red Chamber ... Pages in category "Qing dynasty novels"
Films set in 19th-century Qing dynasty (29 P) ... Pages in category "Films set in the Qing dynasty" The following 41 pages are in this category, out of 41 total.
A sub-genre of noir fiction has been named "rural noir" in the US, [15] [16] and sometimes "outback noir" in Australia. [17] [18] Many rural noir novels have been adapted for film and TV series in both countries, such as Ozark, No Country for Old Men, [15] and Big Sky in the US, [19] and Troppo, The Dry, Scrublands, [17] and High Country (2024) in Australia.
Films set in the Qing dynasty (4 C, 41 P) N. Novels set in the Qing dynasty (39 P) Q. Television series set in the Qing dynasty ...