Lover of the Last Empress

Lover of the Last Empress 1995

慈禧秘密生活 cíxǐ mìmì shēnghuó

The story of an innocent girl who is destined to become one of the emperor´s concubines. Initially she suffers from a loss of innocence and the intrigues of the other concubines but over the course of time she becomes less and less scrupulous and finally is impregnated by the emperor and thus becomes his wife - the empress of China. However, her "career" has corrupted her once innocent soul and so, after the emperor dies she rules the land with terror.

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不平衡 不平衡 bù píng héng disequilibrium ∼HSK 5
媚 媚 mèi charming, attractive; flatter ∼HSK 5
国势 國勢 guó shì national strength; situation in a state ∼HSK 5
斋戒 齋戒 zhāi jiè to fast ∼HSK 5
怎么搞的 怎麼搞的 zěn me gǎo de How did it happen?; What's wrong?; What went wrong?; What's up? ∼HSK 5
太监 太監 tài jiàn court eunuch; palace eunuch ∼HSK 5
青云 青雲 qīng yún clear sky; fig. high official position; noble ∼HSK 5
淳 淳 chún honest, simple, unsophisticated; cyanogen; ethane dinitrile ∼HSK 5
军费 軍費 jūn fèi military expenditure ∼HSK 5
通商口岸 通商口岸 tōng shāng kǒu àn treaty port, forced on Qing China by the 19th century Great Powers ∼HSK 5
无异 無異 wú yì nothing other than; to differ in no way from; the same as; to amount to ∼HSK 5
为所欲为 為所欲為 wéi suǒ yù wéi (idiom) to do whatever one pleases ∼HSK 5
统帅 統帥 tǒng shuài command; commander-in-chief ∼HSK 5
军心 軍心 jūn xīn (military) troop morale; (fig.) team morale ∼HSK 5
敌军 敵軍 dí jūn enemy troops; hostile forces ∼HSK 5
溃 潰 huì flooding river; militarily defeat ∼HSK 5
大军 大軍 dà jūn army; main forces ∼HSK 5
抵 抵 dǐ resist, oppose; deny; off-set ∼HSK 5
虏 虜 lǔ to capture, imprison, seize; a prison ∼HSK 5
掠 掠 lüè rob, ransack, plunder; pass by ∼HSK 5
怎 怎 zěn how (variant of 怎么) ∼HSK 5
田地 田地 tián dì field; farmland; cropland; plight; extent ∼HSK 5
祸 禍 huò misfortune, calamity, disaster ∼HSK 5
辱 辱 rǔ humiliate, insult, abuse ∼HSK 5
浩 浩 hào great, numerous, vast, abundant ∼HSK 5
械 械 xiè weapons; implements, instruments ∼HSK 5
不赞成 不贊成 bù zàn chéng disapproval; to disapprove ∼HSK 5
品性 品性 pǐn xìng nature; characteristic; moral character ∼HSK 5
仗 仗 zhàng rely upon; protector; fight; war, weaponry ∼HSK 5
干政 干政 gān zhèng to interfere in state affairs; to meddle in politics ∼HSK 5
乱政 亂政 luàn zhèng to corrupt politics ∼HSK 5
至亲 至親 zhì qīn next of kin; closely related ∼HSK 5
奉 奉 fèng respectfully offer ∼HSK 5
珠 珠 zhū precious stone, gem, jewel, pearl ∼HSK 5
辅佐 輔佐 fǔ zuǒ to assist (usually a ruler) ∼HSK 5
谕 諭 yù proclaim, instruct; edict ∼HSK 5
孝 孝 xiào filial piety, obedience; mourning ∼HSK 5
金主 金主 jīn zhǔ financial backer; bankroller ∼HSK 5
崩 崩 bēng rupture, split apart, collapse ∼HSK 5
奸 奸 jiān crafty, villainous, false ∼HSK 5
戒严 戒嚴 jiè yán to impose martial law; to impose emergency measures ∼HSK 5
喇嘛 喇嘛 lǎ ma lama, spiritual teacher in Tibetan Buddhism ∼HSK 5
殓 殮 liàn dress corpse for burial ∼HSK 5
凤 鳳 Fèng male phoenix; symbol of joy ∼HSK 5
幼 幼 yòu young ∼HSK 5
纲 綱 gāng heavy rope, hawser; main points ∼HSK 5
命大 命大 mìng dà lucky (to have escaped death or serious injury) ∼HSK 5
有理 有理 yǒu lǐ reasonable; justified; right; (math.) rational ∼HSK 5
殿 殿 diàn palace hall ∼HSK 5
闲话家常 閑話家常 xián huà jiā cháng to chat about domestic trivia (idiom) ∼HSK 5