To this day "The Tale of Genji," a story written as a picture scroll in Japan's Heian period (794-1185), is regarded as the most important work in ancient Japanese literature. A shining baby boy is born to ...

Hikaru Genji (literally "Shining One of the Minamoto Clan" ) is the illegitimate son of Emperor Kiritsubo of Japan, and considered too handsome for his own good. After Genji's mother dies, his father relucta...

Acclaimed creator Kaoru Mori (Emma, Shirley) brings the nineteenth-century Silk Road to lavish life, chronicling the story of Amir Halgal, a young woman from a nomadic tribe betrothed to a twelve-year-old bo...

During the Xiande period of the Dazhou dynasty, the Prince of Jianxing, Shen Wei, suffered defeat at the Chashi river in the northeast, leading to the Six Prefectures of Zhongbo almost falling to external fo...

Luo Shiyi-niang was forced marry her brother-in-law as a stand-in for her deceased sister during a trip to Yanjing. She thought that it was nothing more than an arranged marriage that would bring profit to h...