The Empress Dowager

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The Empress Dowager
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Traditional Chinese 傾國傾城
Simplified Chinese 倾国倾城
Hanyu Pinyin Qīng Guó Qīng Chéng
Jyutping King1 Gwok3 King1 Sing4
Directed by Li Han-hsiang
Written byLi Han-hsiang
Produced by Runme Shaw
Starring Lisa Lu
Ti Lung
CinematographyLam Chiu
Edited byChiang Hsing-lung
Music by Frankie Chan
Production
company
Distributed byShaw Brothers Studio
Release date
  • 21 March 1975 (1975-03-21)
Running time
165 minutes
CountryHong Kong
LanguageMandarin

The Empress Dowager is a 1975 Hong Kong historical film directed by Li Han-hsiang and produced by the Shaw Brothers Studio, starring Lisa Lu as Empress Dowager Cixi.

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Although the Empress Dowager Tzu-hsi of the Ching Dynasty had promised her nephew, Emperor Kuang-hsu that he had complete autonomy, he found that this was not the case as he attempted to exert his authority over corrupt eunuchs and officials who undermined him with the backing of the Empress Dowager. Young, inexperienced and without a strong cadre of loyal officials to support him, he tries to juggle affairs both public and private. His loveless marriage to Empress Chin Feng and dislike of the Empress further leaves him all the more bereft of any power lever. His only bright spark in a cold gloomy palace was his love for Concubine Chen and a young eunuch who wholeheartedly supports him.

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