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Pages in category "Films set in 19th-century Qing dynasty" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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 ...
Films set in 19th-century Qing dynasty (29 P) ... (1978 film) Foreign Devils (1927 film) H. Hail the Judge; Hero – Beyond the Boundary of Time; The Heroes (1980 ...
The Spring Willow Society performing Victorien Sardou's La Tosca (1909), with Lu Jingruo and Ouyang Yuqian in the main roles. Civilized drama (simplified Chinese: 文明戏; traditional Chinese: 文明戲; pinyin: wénmíng xì) was a genre of spoken-word and operatic drama that emerged in the late Qing dynasty and remained popular through the early years of the Republic of China.
By the end of the 19th century, the novel was republished at least 13 times. [ 14 ] In A Brief History of Chinese Fiction , Lu Xun called the novel "outstanding" among "storytelling tales" [ 21 ] and wrote: "Though some of the incidents are rather naive, the gallant outlaws are vividly presented and the descriptions of town life and jests with ...
The film was a box office hit and is largely credited with starting the period martial arts craze of the early to mid 1990s. It ran for almost two months, the longest duration for any of the series, and grossed HK$29,672,278 in Hong Kong. [3] In the Philippines, the film was released as Enter the New Game of Death by First Films on 15 October ...
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 ...
The Sino-Japanese War at Sea 1894 is set in the late 19th century and based on the events of the First Sino-Japanese War (1894–95), which was fought between the Qing Empire of China and the Empire of Japan. A young Deng Shichang enrols in the Fujian Naval Academy, where he meets his future colleagues such as Liu Buchan and Fang Boqian.